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NSG 521 Module -1 Study Guide Questions And Answers Latest Update
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- NSG 561
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- University Of Alabama - Birmingham
NSG 521 Module -1 Study Guide Questions And Answers Latest Update
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NSG:521 Module #1 Study Guide Questions And
Answers Latest Update
What is pathophysiology? ANS✔✔ our bodies trying hard to help up adapt to
the environments we find ourselves in, that sometimes the body goes
overboard, helps maintain balance and keep going
-its the overzealous aspect of our body the causes sickness
state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the
absence of disease of infirmity ANS✔✔ health
A particular abnormal condition that affects part or all of can organism.
Often construed as a medical condition associated with specific symptoms
and signs ANS✔✔ disease (pathology)
What is the perspective do we look at when viewing a patient? ANS✔✔
holistic view, the whole person is the patient; not just signs and symptoms
What is our approach when looking at a patient? ANS✔✔ integrative
What is psychoneuroimmunology? ANS✔✔ the study of how psychological,
neural, and endocrine processes together affect the immune system and
resulting health
What systems make up PNI ANS✔✔ -psycho
-neurological
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-immune
-endocrine
What looks at the interaction between the CNS (brain and spinal cord) and
the immune system (organs and cells) and how they communicate with one
another? ANS✔✔ PNI
Both the CNS and the immune systems send out what that act as
messengers between the 2 systems ANS✔✔ messengers
-small molecules
-proteins
What signals does the CNS release? ANS✔✔ hormones and
neurotransmitters
What signals does the immune system send out? ANS✔✔ cytokines
PNI describes ANS✔✔ -origin of behavior
-and how we are within the world
What is the idea that illness occurs when the immune system breaks down,
when the body fails is when we get sick...due to stress you get sick ANS✔✔
traditional biomedical view
What is the idea that mental illness is a problem with the mind separate
from the body? ANS✔✔ Traditional psychoanalytic view
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These two views are becoming _____ supports by evidence as time goes on
ANS✔✔ less
Our ____________ affects _____, ________, ________, ___________ and ___________
all effect our health and well being ANS✔✔ environment, moods, emotions,
behaviors, brainwaves, and neurotransmitters
There are very powerful connections between the ______ and _______ ANS✔✔
mind and the body
________, _________, and ________ are produced by microbes in the _________
ANS✔✔ GABA, Serotonin, and Dopamine; gut
What percentage of serotonin is produced in the gut? ANS✔✔ 90%
What does serotonin regulate? ANS✔✔ mood, appetite, and sleep
What do certain microbes do in our gut when pertaining to GABA? ANS✔✔
increase the # of GABA receptors in the brain
Do psychological factors influence immune system-mediated disease or is
the presence of a disease causing agent sufficient to cause disease? ANS✔✔
sometimes, but not always...are there other factors could be psychological
sometimes
Things going on in our ______ affect our immune system and if we get sick
ANS✔✔ psyche
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What factors determine how resilient we are in the face of environmental
threats? ANS✔✔ -we need an:
--agent
--susceptible host
--environment that brings host and agent together
Immune system compromised of unable to recognize a foreign material
ANS✔✔ disease; infectious disease, auto-immune disease, cancer
PNI is a theoretical perspective and way of doing science that is: ANS✔✔ -
multidisciplinary
-revealing the processes the underlie health and illness
PNI is the study of the the body responds to its environment in a concerted
and strategic manner using: ANS✔✔ -the brain and neurological system
-endocrine system
-the immune system
--all interacting with one another
PNI can also be referred to as ANS✔✔ PNEI, endocrine isn't always put in the
accronym
The study of the interaction between psychological processes and the
nervous and immune systems of the human body? ANS✔✔ PNI
PNI takes an _________________________ approach, incorporating psychology,
neuroscience, immunology, physiology, genetics, pharmacology, molecular
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