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Stress Worksheet Flashcards

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1
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The activation of what brain region triggers the stress system

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The hypothalamus

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How many axis are there in the stress system?

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2 axis

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What are the names of the axis in the stress system

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SAM
- Sympathetic neurons, Adrenal Medulla
HPA
- Hypothalamus, Pituitary, Adrenal cortex

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What are the characteristics of the SAM axis

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-acts fast through the nervous system
-causes the release of epinephrine

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What are the characteristics of the HPA axis

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  • acts slower through hormones
  • causes the release of cortisol
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What is the role of the amygdala in the stress response?

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  • Treat detection
  • necessary for fear conditioning involving explicit cues
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What is the role of the locus coeruleus in the stress response?

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-Startle response

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What is the role of the hippocampus in the stress response?

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  • Bind fear to context
  • required for fear conditioning in a particular context or location
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What is the role of the prefrontal cortex in the stress response?

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  • evaluation of fear
  • works with the amygdala
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What is the role of the hypothalamus

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  • Keeps body in homeostatic state
  • Activates axis
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What were the findings of the shutter box experiment?

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  • a button that does not control the shocks increases learned helplessness
  • a cage with uncontrollable shocks increases learned helplessness
  • Longer escape latency indicates more learned helplessness
  • Freezing indicates more learned helplessness
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Mineralocorticoid receptors

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  • high affinity for cortisol at rest
    -sets baseline levels of cortisol
    -if there are less receptors this results in a higher baseline
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Glucocorticoid Receptors

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  • low affinity for cortisol at rest
    -involved in stress response recovery
    -less receptors causes slower recovery
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How does exercise training affect stress receptor levels?

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increases glucocorticoid receptors speeding up recovery time

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Type I immune cells
-T cell type
-Immunity
-immune protection
-immune pathology

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  • T Helper I
  • cell-mediated
  • viruses, bacteria and cancer
    -autoimmunity
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Type 2 immune cells
-T cell type
-Immunity
-immune protection
-immune pathology

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  • T Helper 2
    -Humoral (extracellular)
    -Parasites
    -allergies
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17
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What happens to immune cells when under stress?

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-decrease in T Helper 1 and increase in T Helper 2
- Causes an increased risk for viruses, bacteria and caner, as well as allergies

18
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How do SSRI drugs work?

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They block the reuptake of serotonin into the pre-synaptic cell increasing serotonin availability within the synapse

19
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Why do SSRI drugs not work for people with drug-resistant depression

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Depression is caused by inflammation, not lack of serotonin

20
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Describe the study preformed by Paolucci et al. on the benefit of exercise for depression

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-Compared HITT and MCT under high level stress
-measured anxiety, depression, stress and inflammation
-found that both increased resistance to depression and MCT decreased stress and inflammation

21
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Describe the study preformed by Rethorst et al on the benefit of exercise for depression

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  • Individuals with drug resistant depression performed a 12 week exercise program
    -everyone benefited from the program
    -those with high TNF alpha had greatest reduction in symptoms
    -indicates that exercise may be medicine for non-responders
22
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Explain the effects of reappraisal vs ignoring stressors

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Reappraisal causes a decrease in vasoconstriction, increase in cardiac efficiency and decrease in great negativity bias

23
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Should everyone be advised to use positive affirmations to improve mood?

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No
-high self-esteem = boosted mood with affirmations
- low self-esteem = felt worse with affirmations
- need to believe the affirmations

24
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What brain region is associated with PTSD

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the amygdala

25
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How may mindfulness meditation help PTSD

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By activating the pre-frontal cortex to inhibit the amygdala

26
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Def: Stressor

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Anything that disrupts homeostasis

27
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Selyes generalized adaptive syndrome

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A common response to all stressors that help mobilize energy to help defeat the threat

28
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How are exercise and psychological stress similar and different?

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  • Exercise Stress: Voluntary and acute
  • Psychological Stress: Involuntary and chronic
29
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Nocebo Effect

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Negative effect produced by a sham treatment that cannot be attributed to the properties of the treatment itself and therefore, must be due to the patient’s belief in that treatment

30
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Fear conditioning

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-Repeatedly pairing an innocuous cue (CS) with a threat (US)
- Eventually innocuous cue (CS) alone evokes fear

31
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What can prevent learned helplessness?

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  • Gaining control over the situation
  • Regular physical exercise
32
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Allostasis

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Stability through change

33
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How does chronic stress make us anxious

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Reduces GRs by adding methyl group to GR genes
- Exercise remove methyl from GR genes

34
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Can psychological stress increase your susceptibility to infectious diseases?

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Psychological stress is associated with an increase in your susceptibility to infectious diseases

35
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How can vaccine injections affect your mood

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Cause negative mood states
-increase inflammatory cytokines
-cytokines interact with amygdala to increase social withdrawal

36
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Can chronic physical illness cause depression

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  • Chronic inflammatory diseases are associated with depressive symptoms
  • 12 weeks of cytokine therapy for cancer increased rates of major depression
  • Depressed individuals who are otherwise healthy have higher levels of pro-inflammatory cytokines
37
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How does psychological distress alter the brain?

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AMYGDALA: experiences neural growth and hyperactivity
PCF AND HIPPOCAMPUS: neural shrinkage and hypoactivity

38
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Def: Resiliency

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Adapting well in the face of adversity

39
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Effect of exercise on resiliency

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Exercise increases our resilience to psychological distress

40
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Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)

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Rewires the brain to help you rewrite the narrative about fear

41
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Mindfulness meditation

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Reduces psychological distress by bolstering the PFC and its inhibition of the amygdala

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