Psychology 3228 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Personality Disorder, Tennessee Williams, Sylvia Plath

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 3228
• Professor: Scott Mac Dougall- Shackleton

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Levels of analysis: medical science aims to. Proposes that evolutionary biology can aid in this process. Understand responses to disease as potential adaptive responses. Why we get sick: the new science of darwinian medicine (1996) nesse and. Williams since publication, consideration of evolutionary biology in relation to disease rapidly growing. Most widely researched in regard to infectious disease, genetic disorders. Microscopic leads the body to release a chemical called leucocyte endogenous mediator (lem) this leads to a rise in body temp and iron withdrawal from the blood stream (up to 80% reduction) Since bacteria requires iron to develop and multiply, the reduction of iron and high body temp helps kill off these bacteria. Antipyretic (fever suppressant drug) may inhibit the body"s natural defense system. Consists of a short strand of nucleic acid surrounded by a protein coat. Pathogens can be subdivided into dna and rna. T-lymphocytes: formed in thymus (at the base of the neck)