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Health psychology
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Bidirectional relationships between psychology (thoughts, feelings, attitudes, beliefs, motivations...) and health
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Hippocrates’ Humoral theory of illness
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( 4 fluids and you need a balance between all 4 as they control illness and personality
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Plato =
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Body separate from mind ( independent process) |
Body separate from mind ( independent process)
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Galen=
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localization of illness in the body
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Middle ages:
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church exercised control over medicine (not much medical research) |
church exercised control over medicine (not much medical research)
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Renaissaince :
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Descarates breakthrough ( body is a machine, mind and body communicate through the brain, life ends at death= autopsies began)
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18th and 19th centuries
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great advances in technology and science
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Descarates 1664 :
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Pain pathway ( CNS) Earliest form of pain processing
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Biomedical model
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Physical or biological causes and aspects of disease. Conceptualizing disease as all physical. Target specific parts of the body where disease occurs ( localization) |
Physical or biological causes and aspects of disease. Conceptualizing disease as all physical. Target specific parts of the body where disease occurs ( localization)
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Stress as
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Stress as Stress as a stimulus (stressor) , Stress as a response, Stress as a process
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Yerkes-Dodson Law( 1908)
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optimum levels of arousal = optimal performance
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Primary appraisal
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relevant to me is it good or bad
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Secondary appraisal
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can I cope with it?
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Reappraisal
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( reinterpretation cognitive reappraisal involves changing the reaction)
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Acceptance
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( deal with it )
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Distraction
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( finding an outlet)
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Rumination
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( repeated thinking of negative emotions + thinking)
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Process of (most) pain:
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Stimulation at local tissue site(noxious stimulation)
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― Chemicals released->inflammation and activation of nerve endings.
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Nerves transmit message to spinal cord (via nociceptors), then to brain ― Travels through many brain regions |
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Placebo effect:
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positive effect that results not from the treatment itself but purely from patient’s belief or expectations in treatment
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Nocebo
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worsening of symptoms purely based on expectations
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Syndrome
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cluster of symptoms with unknown reason
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Treatment of FGID
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Psychological therapies:CBT, mindfulness etc
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HPA Axis
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Brain gut axis, connects neurons in the brain to neurons in the gut
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Functional syndromes
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no organic cause, medically unexplained
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Biopsychosocial model
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intricate interaction between biological, psychological and social factors. Used to examine FGIDs
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