CH23: Fatigue, Asthenia, Anxiety and Depression

Question 1

As anxiety increases, so do the standard of performance, but only to a point after which increasing anxiety causes a rapid decline in performance. (p. 531)

Answer 1

Yerkes- Dodson Law

Question 2

Examples wherein cathecholamine-mediated organ damage is precipitated by acutely stressful circumstance (p. 533)

Answer 2

Cardiac contraction-band necrosis, shallow hemorrhagic gastrointestinal tract lesion