CHYS 2P35 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Sympathetic Nervous System, Paroxetine, Suicidal Ideation

• School: Brock University
• Department: Child and Youth Studies
• Course: CHYS 2P35
• Professor: John Mc Namara

Document Summary

Depression - historical: response to painful physical stimuli is moderated in the brain by serotonin, shared neurologic pathway. Social neuroscience links social experiences to biological processes that affect the development or progression of disease, primarily via the sympathetic nervous system (sns) and the hypothalamus- pituitary-adrenal (hpa) axis. Biological piggybacking: well-being will always be linked to our social connectedness, you hurt my feelings , socially painful experiences, such as exclusion or rejection, are processed by some of the same neural regions that process physical pain. Connection: five (or more) of the following symptoms have been present during the same 2- week period and represent a change from previous functioning; Depressed mood most of the day, nearly every day. Markedly diminished interest or pleasure in all, or almost all, activities most of the day, nearly every day. Significant weight loss when not dieting or weight gain or decrease or increase in appetite nearly every day.