PSYA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Biofeedback, Solitude, Endorphins
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Meditation: some coping strategies are less cognitive an more physical. Increased connectivity between cognitive and emotional control centres of the brain: meditators may be better able to regulate their emotions. Technology that alerts us when certain muscles are tense. Or when certain brainwave patterns are active. Including brain activity in emotional processing centres of the brain. Maybe increase in serotonin and endorphin production. Maybe related to meditation-focusing on immediate experience. Illness: stress can increase our chances of becoming ill, sickness response: evolutionary adaptation to illness. Less energy spent on physical activity, more energy on fighting infection. Chap 14 lec 3 mar 14: psychological problems can activate the sickness response. Psychological effects on symptoms: we can be more or less attentive to symptoms of physical illness. Some individuals are more attentive than others. Most individuals are more attentive when bored: this attentiveness has consequences. More attentiveness correlates with negativity in other domains.
