KINESIOL 4SS3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Pituitary Gland, Reuptake, Monoamine Neurotransmitter
6 Apr 2017
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Changes that can result in emotional distress: decline in strength, endurance, and physical ability, decrease in health, deaths of spouses and friends, retirement and reduced income, relocation of living arrangements. Fear of being poor and a burden. Fear of losing liberty, identity, and dignity. Short term effects: increase in blood flow to brain, endogenous opiates increase endorphins (sense of wellbeing, changes in catecholamine(cid:495)s (cid:523)norepinephrine(cid:524) levels, increase in body temperature can have relaxing effect, decrease in muscle tension. Long term effects: changes in brain catecholamine levels, brain derived neurotrophic factors, and neurotransmitters. Studies suggest that exercise improves mood: coping with psychological stress. Regular exercisers can adapt to stress better than sedentary individuals (less of an adrenergic response to a stressor: anxiety. Exercise has shown to have positive effects on anxiety (but not clear on type etc. : some prefer vigorous exercise, others prefer yoga, depression, cerebral blood circulation. When active brain is getting more blood flow and this leads to better oxygen.
