PSY 401 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Functional Disorder, Fibromyalgia, Comorbidity
14 Jun 2019
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Chronic widespread pain in response to a normal nonpainful stimulus. Often hard to diagnose and takes a long time. Understand bio mechanisms of stress and how bio implications for fibro. Objectively changing a person"s sensitivity to pain. Chronic stress may be a cause of heightened sensitivity to pain. Smoking depression and stress may be predictors for fibro. Smoking depression and stress strong predictors of worse health. Concurrently treating fibro directly(bio, pain meds) and indirectly (stress, depression, etc. ) Personal relative deprivation (prd): realizing oneself is at a disadvantage, and negatively comparing self to others. Chronic stress plays important role in cellular development of pain. Predictive factors of fibro can be modified via cbt - incorporate into treatment. Psych interventions can lessen functional disorder symptoms. Presentation 2: early-onset alzheimer"s in down syndrome individuals. Gets worse over time - no treatment. Usually symptoms seen around 65 years old. Pathology of ds people with risk of ad. Ab 1-43 significantly higher in ds individuals.
