HORMONES and DISEASES Flashcards
1
Q
What is Oxytocin
A
The love hormone
2
Q
What are Endorphins?
A
Painkiller hormones
3
Q
Dopamine and Serotonin are?
A
the happy hormones
4
Q
8 MAJOR CAUSES OF DISEASES
A
- Physical Agents
- Chemical Agents
- Biological Agents
- Nutrition
- Genetics
- Inadequate oxygen
- Immunology
- Endocrine Imbalance
5
Q
Parkinson’s are characterized by
A
- too low dopamine
- Px has a hard time moving
- muscles do NOT receive
6
Q
Hallucinations are caused by?
A
no external stimulus
7
Q
Illusions are caused by?
A
- organic brain defect in Px
- with stimulus
8
Q
What are Delusions?
A
fixed false belief/s
9
Q
Schizophrenia is caused by too much of what hormone?
A
- Too much dopamine
- no illusions
10
Q
Cancer is caused by?
A
mutation of DNA and cancer cells
11
Q
Gout is caused by?
A
the accumulation of Uric Acid
