PSY240H5 Chapter Notes -Cingulate Cortex, Cardiovascular Disease, Sympathetic Nervous System
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Stress & health, 8 th march 2012: what is stress, defining stress. Psychological/cognitive components: cognitive appraisal (lazarus & folkman, 1984, primary appraisal (irrelevant, good, stressful) Example study: psychological health responses to 9/11 terrorist attacks. 9-14 days post attacks and follow up 1,2,3 years. Findings: acute stress reactions to 9/11 predicted, a 53% increased incidence of cardiovascular diseases ailments across the following 3 years (p>. 001, found that the location didn"t matter, people in. Ohio had stressful effects, didn"t have to be in new. Cognitive appraisal triggers a physiological reaction in. Main components: amygdala (fear, cingulate gyrus, fornix, hippocampus (memory, recognition, stores episodic memory, hypothalamus. Combat, assault, child abuse, serious motor vehicle. Loneliness & isolation = disregulated expression of genes regulating pro and anti-inflammatory cytokines: anxiety and cardiovascular disease, attica study. Predictor: anxiety levels: measured by the state trait anxiety inventory (stai) Outcomes: cardiovascular and immune markers: stai positively correlated with.
