Stress management chapter 4

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

2

This person is recognized for discovering the scientific link between emotions and neuropeptides.

Candace Pert

According to cell biologist Bruce Lipton, an organ transplant patient is given this substance so his or her body won't reject the new organ.

Cortisol

True or False? According to Borysenko's stress and disease model, the physiological process that causes common colds and allergies is the same.

False

True or False? Current estimates suggest that as much as 50% of all disease and illness is either precipitated or aggravated by perceived stress.

False

True or False? T-cells get their name from the thyroid gland in which they are stored.

False

True or False? Although hundreds of neuropeptides have now been discovered, Candace Pert hypothesizes that perhaps only one neuropeptide molecule exists and changes its vibration as a result of an emotional processing.

True

True or False? The function of T-helpers (CD 4) is to increase the production of antibodies released by T-cells.

True

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

an increase in the entrainment response.

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.

According to Borysenko's stress and disease model, lupus is regarded as an:

endogenous overreaction.

According to the Borysenko stress and disease model, cancer is regarded as an:

endogenous underreaction.

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

exogenous overreaction.

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

exogenous underreaction.

The premise of the Lipton's stress and disease model (epigenetic theory) is:

the cell environment, including consciousness, controls DNA.


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