PSYCH 152 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Iyengar Yoga, Cell-Mediated Immunity, Sickness Behavior
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2:35 pm: week 10, sickness behavior - how physical symptoms of the body affects stuff in your head. Allows you to avoid predators in a vulnerable state: 3 types of literature. Get a group of people together and measure crp levels and see over time who develops depression. Naomi gave an endotoxin challenge and measure different aspects of sickness behavior. Professor bower studied inflammation causing fatigue: x can be medical condition or treatment, connection between the gut and the brain. Probiotics to experiment with different levels of organisms in the gut and its effect on mood and inflammation. Depressed patients were randomly assigned to take probiotics or placebo for 8 weeks. Those assigned to probiotics showed declines in depressed mood and crp: sleep predicts mortality. Too much or too little sleep is associated with a wide spread bad of. Too much or too little sleep is associated with a wide spread bad of physical conditions and cognitive impairment.
