PSYC 328 Lecture 18: 18 PSYC 328 Nov 15th 2016
1 Dec 2016
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Link between psyche and immune system linked by nervous system (cid:523)cns(cid:524) . E. g. herpes virus can produce systems only when immune system is down. Brings together multiple disciplines to research this topic and treat. 1) ishigami published paper on tb and found disease was worsened by stress and influenced by personality and blood sugar levels (nervous high blood sugar high adrenaline high stress increased symptoms of tb) Today we know it"s more complex (cid:498)the influence of psychic acts on the progress of pulmonary tb(cid:499) On the right track but wrong discovered 90-100% of ulcers are from. 2) selye: stress and cortisol release leading to inflammation and ulcers. Lead to ulcers as the dominant example of stress related disease helicobacter virus treatable by antibiotics (recurrence rate after is 4% as opposed to 80%) But still is a stress component (higher stress leads to more likely recurrence)
