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Behavioral Medicine
Broad interdiciplinary approach to the treatment of physical disorders to have psychological factors as a major aspect in their course and or maintanaice.
Health Psychology
Subspecialty within behavioral medicine that deals with psychology's contribution to diagnosis, treatment and prevention of psychologycal components of physical dysfunction.
Psychophysiological Disorders
Physical disorder in which psychologycal factors are beleved to play a major causative role.
Allostatic Load
The biological cost of adapting to stress. when we are stressed our allostatic load is high.
B-Cell
A type of white blood cell that is produced in the bone marrow.
Antigens
A forieng body or an internal threat that can cause and immune system response.
T-Cell
A type of white blood cell produced in the thymus.
Cytokines
Small protein molecules that enable the brain and the immune system to communicate with each other.
Immunosuppression
A down regulation or dampening of the immune system. This can be short or long lasting and it can be triggered by injury, stress, illness and other factors.
Psychoneuroimmunology
Study of the interactions between the immune system and the nervous system and the influence of these factors in behavior.
Positive Psychology
A new field that focuses on human traits and resources that are potentially important for health and wellbeing.
Essential hypertension
High blood pressure with no specific physical cause.
Type A behavioral pattern
Excessive competitive driven even when it is unnecessary, impatience and hostility.
Type D personality
Personality is characterized by high levels of negative emotions and social anxiety. reasearch sugets that type D personality is linked to heart attacks.
Biofeedback
Treatment techniques in which a person is taught to influence his or her own physical process that were formely thought to be involuntary.
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
A debilitating illness characterized by disabling fatigue that last 6 months or more and occur with other symptoms.