Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder, Glucocorticoid, Coronary Artery Disease

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

Document Summary

Stress: anything that gets in your way will have a pattern of responses (cognitive, physiological, emotion, and behavioural) Responses to stimuli (both real and imagined) that are perceived as blocking a goal. Stressors: can involve: catastrophes: natural disasters, high conflict environments (ie war, life changes life event stress test, hassles daily, little things that build up into one big thing. No? stress: perceived control: can i do anything about this, personality, social support, coping. Sympathetic nervous system, adrenal medulla is stimulated, epinephrine enters the blood system. Signal to the hypothalamus sends a signal to the anterior pituitary gland. Adrenal cortex dumps cortisol into the blood system. Cortisol: effects similar to epinephrine, converts protein to glucose, makes fats available to energy, increased blood flow, almost every cell in the body has receptors for glucocorticoids (cortisol) Stress results in the release of glucocorticoids, directly suppress the action of white blood cells: support of this theory: