KINESIOL 2G03 Lecture Notes - Animal Cognition, Macrophage, Night Sweats
20 Jan 2014
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Half were told: increase in cold tolerance is healthy! Half were told: decrease in cold tolerance is healthy! Results: people select actions that are diagnostic of favorable outcomes! Placebo effect: beliefs about the treatment have a huge effect on if the treatment will work! Patient experiences dramatic mood swings, anxiety, hallucinations, racing heart, nausea, joint pain! Mental symptoms could be something wrong with her body if she doesn"t respond to anti- depressants! A rare genetic disorder affects her mental function as well as her body function! She suffered for 10 years because the psychiatrists weren"t asking the right questions! Getting injected with a pathogen affects their psychological well being! diseases of the mind and body are treated separately ! Causes a problem in our approach to medicine, because the mind and body do work together! mind-body communication! 30 healthy males were injected with placebo or with vaccine! Those injected with vaccine see a large increase in negative mood!
