NEUR 3403 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Autoimmune Disease, Frequent Urination, Metabolic Disorder

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Neuroscience
• Course: NEUR 3403
• Professor: Hymie Anisman

Document Summary

C-reactive protein and depression are highly comorbid with heart disease. When cytokines are released it causes inflammation (il-6 , il-1 and tnf-alpha) Will interact with cholesterol and stick to the surface. Angina: pains in chest, 2 types, get pain while shoveling you must stop, resting angina vs working angina. People going in for bypass surgery (removing vain from one place and put it in another: most likely triple or quadruple because multiple arteries are getting clogged or close to being clogged. Being over weight is bad because you probably have more cholesterol and stuff. Blood flow throughout the body will cause the plaque build up to rupture. Working out affects growth factors which create neurons to generate in different ways. Exercising you burn off energy -> affecting microbiota -> Chronic stress -> build up of cholesterol, plaque => heart disease.