PSY340H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Antiviral Drug, Cortisol, Psychoneuroimmunology
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Psychosomatic disorder generated by the mind and they actually do cause physiological symptoms: these are people who think and feel themselves actually physically ill, new area of research, stress can cause certain physiologically symptoms. Asthma: stress, and then physiological symptoms that can be dangerous. How you think and feel will affect recuperation, how you age physically, whether you get a disease or not. Health psychology new area, fast growing. Health psychology is a subfield of psychology that is concerned with how psychological and social variables affect health and illness. Health psychologists develop programs to reduce the levels of risk factors related to diseases. Hans selye developed the concept of stress as the nonspecific response of the body to demands to adjust to a wide range of changes. Flight is preferred, fight is only when you are cornered the reaction built in most mammals/animals = freeze.
