NURSING 2LA2 Study Guide - Comprehensive Midterm Guide: Insulin Tolerance Test, Limbic System, Natural Killer Cell
5 Oct 2016
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Stress response or (neuro-endocrine response) = psycho-neuro-immunologic response. Definition 1: a state manifested by a specific syndrome of the body, developed in response to any stimuli that made an intense systemic demand of it (selye, 1956) [world renowned canadian researcher . Definition 2: a person experiences stress when a demand exceeds a person"s coping abilities, resulting in reactions such as disturbances of cognition, emotion, and behavior that can adversely affect well- being ". Selye said you can"t avoid stress but it is the spice of life it is a great stimulus to achieve but it can cause death, disease, suffering and death. Dr. sapolsky states that one person"s stress is another"s paid recreation (one who is afraid of height and a person who pays to skydive and such) There are 3 separate components: the stressor, stress response, pathophysiological sequelae that occurs. Stressors can be: positive (eustressors, negative (distressors, neutral (until it is changed into something positive or negative)
