Either way‚ keeping secrets are not only a burden‚ but can be hazardous to your health. According to the article “Keeping Secrets Can Be Hazardous to Your Health” it states that every time you think about a deeply held secret‚ stress hormones such as cortisol can surge‚ impacting your memory‚ blood pressure‚ gastrointestinal tract and metabolism. As neurosurgeon Gopal Chopra says “Those Hormones also include norepinephrine‚ which affect parts of the brain where attention and responses are
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STUDENT DETAILS ACAP Student ID: 212348 Name: Jozmaye Talentine Benn Course: Bachelor of Applied Social Science (BASSIX) ASSESSMENT DETAILS Unit/Module: Introduction to psychology Educator: Meaghan Poulton Assessment Name: Academic Essay Assessment Number: Assignment no 1 Term & Year: Term 2‚ 2013 Word Count: 2121 DECLARATION I declare that this assessment is my own work‚ based on my own personal research/study. I also declare that this assessment‚ nor parts of it‚ has
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Chapter 46: Organization of endocrine control Two major systems evolved to communicate and coordinate body functions Nervous system Endocrine system Hormones are carried through the blod to distant target tissue where they are recognized by specific‚ high-affinity receptors These receptors may be located either on the surface of target tissue‚ within the cytosol‚ or in the target cell’s nucleus Once a hormone is recognized by its target tissue or tissues‚ it can exert its biologic action by
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65‚ 431-437. Mattocks KM.‚ Skanderson M.‚ Goulet JL. Pregnancy and mental health among women veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. J Womens Health (Larchmt). 2010;19:2159–2166. Meewisse ML.‚ Reitsma JB.‚ de Vries GJ.‚ Gersons BP.‚ Olff M. Cortisol and post-traumatic stress disorder in adults: systematic review and meta-analysis. Br J Psychiatry. 2007;191:387–392. Mowrer‚ O. H. (1960). Learning theory and behavior. New York: Wiley. Rasmusson‚ A. M.‚ Hauger‚ R. L.‚ Morgan‚ C. A.‚ et al (2000)
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A STUDY OF PREVALENCE OF INSOMNIA AMOMNG UNIVERSITIES TUNKU ABDUL RAHMAN‟S STUDENTS TAN SHI SHENG A RESEARCH PROJECT SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE BACHELOR OF SOCIAL SCIENCE (HONS) PSYCHOLOGY FACULTY OF CREATIVE INDUSTRIES UNIVERSITI TUNKU ABDUL RAHMAN MARCH. 2011 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to thank Doctor Siah which is my supervisor and also my academic advisor in University Tunku Abdul Rahman. Without his assistance‚ it is impossible for me to complete
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LDHPrincess Boston 000-05-5939 Ms. Verona Seymour English 120 Final Draft: Formal Documented Argumentative Essay November 23rd 2012 Childhood Obesity: Parents dilemma Cardiovascular disease‚ diabetes‚ musculoskeletal discomforts are some of the many serious health effects that should be the nightmare we all avoid. So why it is that in today’s society we are faced with the alarming fact of half of our population being obese‚ which are the causative agents to these malicious health problems
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sustain healthy brain development (Shore 1997). Touch plays a critical role in the brain’s ability to weather stress without adverse effects. Touch lowers levels of the stress hormone cortisol in the human brain. (Holden 1996‚ Field et al‚ 1997‚ Shore 1997‚ Blackwell 2000). Positive touch reduces levels of cortisol in the bloodstream (Holden 1996‚ Field et al‚ 1997‚ Shore 1997‚ Blackwell 2000). Good touch will lead to increased mental and physical functioning in children. Without touch‚ children
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A study of 500 low-income children ages 7 to 13‚ about half of whom had been abused and/or neglected‚ aimed to find out whether abuse early in life and feelings of depression affected cortisol ("stress hormone") levels. Study results suggest that there are different subtypes of depression‚ with atypical cortisol regulation occurring among children who were abused before age 5 (
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Hormones are chemical messengers that flow through the human body‚ hormones control major bodily functions. These chemical messengers tell your body when you are hungry‚ they affect your emotions and your mood‚ and can even range to the complex systems of reproduction. Hormone are produced by glands‚ which are part of the endocrine system. In order to get a better feel and grip on what hormones are‚ you must understand the major hormonal systems. There are many glands that produce hormones
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Humor and Healing: The Mind-Body Connection "As it is not proper to cure the eyes without the head‚ nor the head without the body; so neither is it proper to cure the body without the soul." Socrates(Cousins‚ 56) The word‚ to heal‚ comes from the root word "haelen" which means to make whole. Bringing together the body‚ mind and spirit can be healing. The word humor itself is a word of many meanings. The root of the word is "umor" meaning liquid or fluid (Moyers‚ 221). In the Middle Ages‚ humor
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