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week 9 part 1 Flashcards

1
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What does stress have an impact on?

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  1. Mood disorder

2. Mental disorder

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What are the neuroendocrine response to stress?

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  1. Cognitive identification of stimulus
  2. Appraisal of capacity to respond
  3. Physiological response
  4. Behavioural response
  5. Recovery
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What is stress?

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A learned response in majority of the cases

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What can stress also be?

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Autonomic sensor response to an environment that is noxious/ damaging to the organism

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What is the cognitive identification of stimulus seen as ?

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  1. Stressful

2. harmful

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What are examples of physiological response?

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  1. Increase heart rate
  2. Respiration
  3. Vasoconstriction
  4. Suppression of immune and reproductive system
  5. Redirection of glucose metabolism
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What is behavioural response?

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e.g. fight or flight

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What is recovery?

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Return to homeostasis

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9
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How do these physiological responses occur?

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  1. Very rapidly

2. Bypasses cognitive identification in certain circumstances

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When does stress occur?

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Arousal

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What will arousal evoke?

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The stress response of predator

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12
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What is not always negative?

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The psychological stress

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13
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What involves the activation of almost all nervous system?

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  1. The physiological healthy stress response

2. The maladaptive stress response

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What happens when the organism is recognising the stressor?

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It’s engaging the central nervous system

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When is the thermoreceptor in the skin sending information to the spinal cord?

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When an organism is in the presnece of strong level of pollution or elevated heat

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What occurs when the brain is engaged in the stress response?

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It will send signals via the peripheral nervous system e.g. ANS or SNS

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What is the consequence of ANS becoming activated by stress?

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  1. More muscles become activated by stress

2. Voluntary muscles become innervated

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18
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What will the sympathetic nervous system be mobilising?

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The resources of glucose in your cells and start changing the metabolism of fat and protein and turning it into sugar

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What systems will shut down as a response to stress response?

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  1. Immune systems

2. Reproductive systems

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What does stress involve?

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Main centre of sensation gathering

sensation relay of the brain

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Where does the stress response start?

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Hypothalamus

  1. send hormone signals to other parts of the brain to trigger physiological stress response
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What is the mechanism of hypothalamus?

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  1. Hypothalamus releases hormone into pituitary gland
  2. Releases hormone
  3. Reaches the circulation
  4. Reach top of kidney into adrenal gland
  5. Release glucorticoid (cortisol)
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What does hypothalamus take on?

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  1. Visual Information
  2. Auditory Information
  3. Takes information from nerve endingsand receptor son skin
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What is released at the level of hypothalamus?

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Release of CRH

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What will CRH stimulate?

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The release of ACTH fin the pituitary gland

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Where will ACTH reach?

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The bloodstream into adrenal gland and produce the release of glucorticoid

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27
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What is the limbic system?

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complex set of structures that lies on both side of the thalamus, just under the cerebrum

series of cortical structures surrounding the limit between the cerebral hemispheres and the brainstem

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What does the limbic system include?

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  1. Hypothalamus
  2. Hippocampus
  3. Amygdala
  4. Other several other nearby areas
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What is the role of limbic system?

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  1. primarily responsible for our emotional life

2. Formation of memories

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30
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What is the integrator of stress response?

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Amygdala

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What is the limbic system seen as ?

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Primitive evolutionary parts of the brain

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How does the limbic system operate by?

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Influencing the endocrine system and the autonomic nervous system

33
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What are the adrenal glands?

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Small glands located on top of each kidney

Endocrine gland that produce a variety of hormones including adrenaline and the steroids aldosterone and cortisol

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What is the adrenal cortex?

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  1. Outermost layer of the adrenal gland

2. Within the cortex 3 layers called zones

35
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What are the adrenal cortex devoted to produce?

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hormones

  1. Aldosterone
  2. Cortisol
  3. Androgens
36
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Where is adrenal medulla located?

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centre of each adrenal gland

surrounded by adrenal cortex

37
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What is the chromaffin cells a main source of?

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catecholamines adrenaline and noradrenaline, released by the medulla

Approximately 20% noradrenaline (norepinephrine) and 80% adrenaline (epinephrine) are secreted here

38
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What is Locus Ceruleus?

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nucleus in the pons of the brainstem involved with physiological responses to stress and panic.

39
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What is the Locus Ceruleus a principle site for?

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brain synthesis of norepinephrine

40
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What do neurons in the Locus Ceruleus send projections to?

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axons that are leaving the centre and disputed all over the cortex and directed towards the thalamus

41
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What does the brain appraise?

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Threats

Gives it meaning

42
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What brain regions are involved in the stress responses?

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  1. Hypothalamus
  2. Amygdala (Limbic system)
  3. Locus ceruleus
43
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What does the limbic system (amygdala) play a role in?

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Appraisal/interpretation of the stressfulness of a threat

i.e. gives emotional meaning of perceptions: Fear, anger, anxiety

44
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What is stress response?

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Not just mechanical

It involves our emotions

45
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What does the stress response operate via?

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2 interrelated systems

  1. HPA (Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical)
  2. SAM (sympathetic-adreno-medullary)

Both triggered by the hypothalamus

Balance each other

46
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What is SAM?

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A stress response that bypasses the brain into medulla

47
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What is SAM?

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fast response

responds to short term stress

48
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What is HPA ?

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slow response

49
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How does SAM work?

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starts in the brain - specifically in the SNS
Signal the adrenal Medulla
chromaffin cells are the specific targets
Release epinephrine/norepinephrine in the blood

50
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How does HPA axis work?

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Start in the brain initially specifically in the hypothalamus 
move into the anterior pituitary 
release hormone called CRH 
release ACTH
create cortisol
51
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SAM

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Adrenal medllula releases hormones epinephrine (adrenaline) and norepinephrine

52
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What does SAM stimulate?

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Rapid mobilization of metabolic resources:

  1. Increased heart rate
  2. BP
  3. Blood glucose
53
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How does the epinephrine/norepinephrine stimulate the mobilization?

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alpha and beta adrenergic receptors in the whole body

54
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What does adrenal cortex produce?

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  1. Glucocorticoid
  2. Mineralocorticoid

these form a back up response

55
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What is the slower effect of cortisol the most important human glucocorticoid?

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Involved in regulating metabolism
Immune response
General homeostasis
Alters metabolism from protein and fat into glucose

56
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What is HPA involved in?

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  1. Alters metabolism
  2. Supresses immune response
  3. Targets the brain: Receptors = GRs and MRs
  4. Alters gene expression via GR motifs in the genes
57
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What do the glucocorticoid from HPA bind to?

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Specific mineralocorticoid (MR) or glucocorticoid (GR) receptors on target organs

58
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What does GRs mediate?

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most of the stress response

59
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What does MRs mediate?

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Basal responses such as regulating:

  1. neurotransmitters
  2. BP
  3. Circadian rhythm
60
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What is allostasis?

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process of achieving stability, or homeostasis, through physiological or behavioral change

61
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What is normal homeostasis maintained within?

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Relatively narrow limits

62
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What does the stress response maintain homeostasis over?

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Far wider range of adaptive circumstances which allow organisms to respond to challenges

63
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What is there not much in homeostasis?

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Flexibility

64
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What does maintaining stress and adaptive responses over long term imply?

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High level of activation of the homeostatic processes

65
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Define allostatic load

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Allostatic load is “the wear and tear on the body” that accumulates as an individual is exposed to repeated or chronic stress

66
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Why is chronic or severely acute activation of stress reponse maladaptive?

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because when an individual stays in this space of exhaustion – its where diseases start to occur

67
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What is General Adaptation syndrome?

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==> Three predictable stages the body uses to respond to stressors
==> 1st stage: Alarm stage
- Provides a burst of energy
==> 2nd stage: Resistance stage
- The body attempts to resist or adapt to the stressor
==> 3rd stage: Exhaustion stage
- Energy is depleted

68
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How are individuals not identical?

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ʓ We come with different genetic mixtures, come from different maternal exposure, from different nutritional histories or immunological challenges

69
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What can a genotype/ certain life experience contribute to?

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  1. Vulnerable phenotype for the disease
70
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What are susceptible phenotype sensitive to?

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Environment

71
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What causes gene expression changes in the brain?

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  1. Chronic stress mixed with genetic predisposition
72
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What can chronic stress lead to?

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Cellular and molecular damage

73
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Short period of stress

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Release of neurotransmitters

74
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Medium length

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Corticosteroids
Transcription factors activated
Epigenetic effects

75
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Chronic long term stress:

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  1. Genomic and Epigenomic effects (DNA Methylation changes in neurons)
  2. Neurodegeneration
  3. Reduction in Neurotrophic production
76
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What will sustained release of norepinephrine will produce ?

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Adducts

77
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What do different types of stressors have?

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Different cellular characteristics

78
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Define chronic stress

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Maladaptive responses that can result in psychiatric syndromes such as anxiety and depressive disorders

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