SOCI 473 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Rethink Mental Illness, Polyvagal Theory, Microbiota
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Things to include: ed young - ted talk, em chp 9, severance, yolken, eaton - 2016 autoimmune diseases, porges 2011 - chp 3 - polyvagal theory (canvas) Porges: microbiome works as immunological radar scanning everything that"s around us + adjusting to it, food, lifestyle, genetic make-up, etc. Important to note that social behaviour, social communication + visceral homeostasis = incompatible w/ neurophysiological states + behaviours promoted by. "if wall street were a person, we"d think he was mentally ill: connection b/w mania + market = more than metaphorical - personification of "mr. Is real economy more real: remember stock market = manic depressive - warren buffett, market mania = connotes a loss of touch w/ reality/rationality, even something close to mass hysteria + insanity. Inflammation + stress = potent perpetrators of gi permeability (when gi = more permeable pathogens will enter blood circulation)