Stress

Question 1

What are the types of stress? (2)

Answer 1

1. Psychological
2. Physical (short and long term)

Question 2

What are the short term responses to stress?

Answer 2

• sympathetic = fight or flight
• adrenal medulla = adrenaline/noradrenaline

Question 3

What are the long term responses to stress?

Answer 3

• endocrine system
• adrenal cortex = cortisol

Question 4

What’re the short term response via the adrenal medulla?

Answer 4

• adrenaline/noradrenaline
  ADRENALINE
• increase blood glucose (gluconeogenesis)
  NORADRENALINE
• increase bpm
• vasoconstriction constriction

Question 5

What’s the long term response via the adrenal cortex?

Answer 5

• cortisol
• increase blood glucose (gluconeogenesis)
• increase fat & protein metabolism
• increase bpm

Question 6

What’s Crushing’s disease?

Answer 6

• too much cortisol secretion
• fatty hump between shoulders
• can cause type 2 diabetes

Question 7

What’s Addison’s disease?

Answer 7

• adrenal insufficiency
• body doesn’t make enough of certain hormones
• too little cortisol/adrenaline