Quiz 5-8 stress managmnt

High levels of Neuropeptide Y (that are appropriate to the environmental challenge) are responsible for what attributes?

1 & 3 above

Only _____% of lymphocytes are in circulation at any one time.

2

The dynamics of stress and disease include:

A B & C

Neuropeptide Y levels are linked with

A and B

The Gerber model of stress and disease indicates that:

A,B,C

Endorphins are a form of internally made neuropeptide that are linked enhanced mood and pain relief. This alternative medical approach appears to specifically tap into areas that produce endorphins:

Acupuncture

When are you most likely to develop an ulcer related to stress?

During a rebound, nonstressed period.

In a recent study, special forces soldiers showed

Higher than typical levels of NPY (neuropeptide Y)

This Type D (or A) characteristic is thought to be most closely related to coronary heart disease.

Hostile aggressive behavior.

An accurate statement about links between schizophrenia and stress would be:

In addition to having a vulnerability for the disease, a person needs to experience a stressor around the time of most vulnerability...typically adolescence/early adulthood.

Viruses _______________ cells, changing the cellular structure, while bacteria ________________.

Invade (move into); are independent cells that release toxins in the body.

What are the major immune system cells that help eliminate cancer cells in the body?

NK-cells

According to Candace Pert's stress and disease model:

Neuropeptides are hormones that can affect the immune system

Who is most likely to experience a heightened biological response when thinking about an event that is perceived as "stressful"?

People who tend toward high hostile personalities

This layer of the human energy field is most closely associated with the body's blueprint of physical health and that found closest to the physical body.

The etheric

The immune system is suppressed by chronic stress through the

Thyroxine and HPA axes

The use of sarcasm would be a mismanaged anger trait exhibited by:

Underhanders.

Research by Keicolt-Glaser reveals that stress effects the following except:

a increase in the entrainment response

This illness is NOT considered a nervous system-related disorder.

allergies

A chakra is:

an energy vortex to transduce energy in/through the energy field.

Stressed monkeys developed twice the amount of what in comparison to non stressed monkeys?

atherosclerosis or clogging of the arteries

Cytokines are responsible for

cell-to-cell communication

Another function of cortisol is as an immune system

complement

According to Candace Pert's stress and disease model:

emotions can either enhance or suppress the immune system through the synthesis and release of neuropeptides throughout the body.

Based on her work involving neuropeptides, neurophysiologist Candace Pert suggests the following hypothesis:

emotions can suppress or enhance the integrity of the immune system

Based on her work involving neuropeptides, neurophysiologist Candace Pert suggests the following hypothesis:

emotions can suppress or enhance the integrity of the immune system.

According to Borysenko's (germ theory) stress and disease model, cancer is regarded as an:

endogenous under-reaction.

In "Unnatural Causes" a term was used to describe when death rates exceed the expected percentage of death in a specific area, based on prior statistics. The term is:

excess death

According to Borysenko's stress and disease model, allergies are regarded as an:

exogenous over-reaction

According to Borysenko's stress and disease model, the common cold is regarded as an:

exogenous under-reaction.

Hypnosis is a __________ state

form of conscious

T-cells are a key part of the ___________and are stored in the ______________gland (thus, their name).

immune; thymus

In the wild, low ranking Baboon males tend to have _____________ while high ranking males_____________________.

increased blood pressure and clogged arteries; lower blood pressure and non-clogged arteries.

A MAJOR outcome of Sapolsky's baboon troop described in the video, "Stress: Portrait of a Killer",was that young adolescent males learned to become (through modeling from other males):

less aggressive and more nurturing towards troop members

Antibiotics are:

only effective on bacteria, not viruses

This relatively new field studies the effects of conciousness, the nervous system, and the immune system to try and explain relations among stress and disease.

psychoneuroimmunology

Endorphins are released by the brain and body to:

reduce pain perception & increase positive mood

In the Worried Sick video, what was related to faster wound healing in medical students?

relaxation training intervention

In the Whitehall study in the UK, lower ranking officials tended to have

shorter life spans, more illnesses

In the video, Stress: Portrait of a Killer, what appeared to be an effective intervention for shortening of one's telomeres?

social connectedness through support groups

In the video, "Stress: Portrait of a Killer", stress, along with what causes ulcers?

stomach bacteria

Blister healing studies suggest:

that people heal faster when in less-stressed, and supportive relationships

In the video, Stress: Portrait of a Killer, what males died after they were exposed to tuberculosis?

the aggressive males who were not socially connected to others

Non-specific immunity refers to

the innate, primitive immune system with which we are born