NEUR 3403 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Controllability

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Neuroscience
• Course: NEUR 3403
• Professor: Elaine Waddington Lamont

Document Summary

Stress response: stressors can have a sustained impact on your life, impact brain/behaviour, time management/commitment, social/relationships/money, short and long term effects, expected vs unexpected stressors. A stressor" is a stimulus or event that is appraised as being aversive. A stressor causes a stress response: ex loneliness, crowds, predators, parents/bad grades, appraisal of events differ between individuals (+ or -, personal and idiosyncratic. Table 1. 1 factors that influence the stress response. Processive: processive: require processing (cognitive or neurological) -> ns impact, psychogenic stressors, neurogenic stressors. Systemic stressors: impact body but may not have psychological impact. Psychological in nature: predator urine animals: aversive response, fear response, loss of a loved one. Neurogenic stressors: requires neurological processing, not necessarily cognitive ex pain. Immune response: not required ex reduced immune system state (still systemic) Don"t require ns processing, may not have psychological impact. Ex bad cold, all 3 dimensions represented -> generally/overall feel bad (neurogenic, psychogenic, systemic)