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