Stress Management ch.3 Stress and Illness Disease

Psychoneurolmmunology

The study of the illness-causing and healing effects of the mind on the body.

Psychogenic

A physical disease caused by emotional stress without a microorganism involved.

Autoimmune response

A physiological response in which the body turns on itself.

Somatogenic

A psychosocmatic disease that results from the mind increasing the body;s susceptibility to disease-causing microbes or natural degenerative processes.

B cells

A type of lymphocyte that produces antibodies.

T cells

A type of lymphocyte whose purpose is to destroy substances foreign to the body by puncturing invaded body cells and killing the cells and the foreign substances.

Phagocytes

A type of white blood cell whose purpose is to destroy substances foreign to the body.

Backache

Affect people's abilities to do physical and cognitive work. Backache may result in lifting heavy objects incorrectly or from structural problems.

Sphygmomanometer

An instrument used to measure blood pressure.

Coronary heart disease-prone personality

Angry, hostile, and aggressive.

Ulcers

Are fissures or cuts in the wall of the stomach, duodenum, or other parts of the intestines.

Migraine headaches

Are the result of a constriction and dilation of the carotid arteries of one side of the head.

Carcinogens

Cancer-causing agents. (ingested, inhaled, viruses)

Memory T and B cells

Cells left in the bloodstream and the lymphatic system to recognize and respond to future attacks to the body by the same invader.

Suppressor T cells

Cells whose purpose is to halt the immune response.

Hot Reactors tend to suffer from?

Chronic anger and anxiety, which leads to high blood pressure.

Psychosomatic Disease

Conditions that have both a mind and body component. e.x.People who have died died or have become ill from severe stress, with seemingly little physically wrong with them.

Plaque

Debris that clogs coronary arteries.

Hypercholesterolemia

High levels of cholesterol in the blood.

Three major risk factors generally agreed to be most associated with coronary heart disease are?

Hypercholesterolemia (high serum cholesterol), hypertension, and cigarette smoking; and yet, two researchers state that in half of new cases or coronary heart disease, patients do not exhibit any of these risk factors.

essential hypertension

Hypertension with no known causes.

Signs of a "Hot Reactor?"

If you anger easily, you are often anxious or depressed, you urinate frequently, you experience diarrhea or constipation more than usual, or you experience nausea or vomiting.

Rheumatoid Arthritis

Inflammation and swelling in various body joints, which may proceed developmentally to be extremely painful and debilitating. suspected of being caused by the faulty functioning of the immune system.

Artheriosclerosis

Loss of elasticity

Researchers have consistently found that mental distress and depression are associated with?

Low back pain.

Tension Headaches

May be caused by muscle tension accompanying stress. This muscle tension may affect the forehead, jaw, or neck.

What are some treatments for tension headaches?

Medication, heat on tense muscles, or massage. Others have reported the effectiveness of relaxation training.

Hot Reactors

People who react to stress with an all-out-physiological reaction.

Low-density lipoprotein (LDL)

Sometimes termed "bad cholesterol", too much LDL leads to a clogging of the arteries and, therefore, is related to the development of coronary heart disease.

High-density lipoprotein (HDL)

Sometimes termed "good cholesterol", HDL helps to remove cholesterol from the body thereby lowering the chances of developing coronary heart disease.

Antibodies

Substances produced by the body to fight antigens.

Prodrome

The constriction phase of a migraine headache; also called preattack.

Temporomanibular Joint (TMJ) (stress in the jaw)

The interference with the smooth functioning of the jaw. May have facial pain, clicking or popping sounds when they open or close their mouths, migraine headaches, earaches, ringing in the ears, dizziness, or sensitive teeth.

Diastolic blood pressure

The pressure of the blood against the arterial walls then the heart is relaxed.

Systolic blood pressure

The pressure of the blood as it leaves the heart.

Cancer prone personality

Unassertive, over patient, avoiding conflicts, and failing to express negative emotions.

Myocardial infarction

When a part of the heart dies because of a lack of oxygen.

Cerebral hemorrhage

a rupture of a blood vessel in the brain

Atherosclerosis

clogging of the coronary arteries.

Preattack

synonymous with prodrome.

Coronary heart disease has been associated with?

Diets high in saturated fat, a lack of exercise, obesity, heredity, and even maleness and baldness.

Hypertension (high blood pressure)

Excessive and damaging pressure of the blood against the walls of the arterial blood vessels.

High Blood pressure leads to susceptibility of?

Heart attacks

What kills more Americans than any other cause of death?

Heart attacks. That stress is related to coronary heart disease.

Obesity

Obesity is a body mass index of 30 or higher.

Psychophysiological

Synonymous with psychosomatic

How much of the population are "Hot Reactors?"

20%

Type A

A behavior pattern associated with the development of coronary heart disease. They are aggressive, competitive, time-urgent, and hostile; often found themselves doing things quickly; were overly concerned with numbers (quantity rather than quality); and often did more than one thing at a time.

Rheumatoid factor

A blood protein associated with rheumatoid arthritis.

Post traumatic stress disorder

A condition that develops in people who have experienced or witnessed an extreme psychological or physical event that is interpreted as distressing. Symptoms include flashback, nightmares, severe anxiety, and uncontrollable thoughts about the event.

Antigen

A foreign substance irritating to the body.

stroke

A lack of oxygen to the brain resulting from a blockage or rupture of a blood vessel; also called apoplexy.

apoplexy

A lack of oxygen to the brain resulting from a blockage or rupture of a blood vessel; also called stroke.

T-Lymphocytes

A part of the immune system that destroys mutant cells.