Psychology 2310A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Adrenocorticotropic Hormone, Cortisol, Dementia

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2310A/B
• Professor: Katerina Rnic

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Key criterion: evidence that the medical condition is adversely affected by some identi able psychological/behavioural factor. 4 ways a psych/behav factor might be ruled in: 1. identi ed factor has in uenced the course of the condition. Requires correlation btwn: 2. interferes with the treatment of the medical condition. Eg. patient not following prescribed treatment course: 3. identi able psych or beh factor poses additional risk to health of individual. Eg. cancer patient persists smoking: 4. in uences pathophysiology. A mechanism is an activity of a living system that mediates the in uence of an antecedent factor on disease. Illness is de ned by symptoms- subjective reports of internal states. Disease is marked by signs- objective indications of an underlying disease process, observable either directly by a person, or indirectly through tests. A sign involves speci c disturbance of bodily tissue, as in a gastric ulcer, or the normal functioning of a bodily system, as in high bp--- lesions.