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our bodies trying hard to help up adapt to the
environments we find ourselves in, that sometimes
What is the body goes overboard, helps maintain balance
pathophysiology? and keep going
-its the overzealous aspect of our body the causes
sickness

state of complete health
physical, mental, and
social well-being and not
merely the absence of
disease of infirmity

A particular abnormal disease (pathology)
condition that affects
part or all of can
organism. Often
construed as a medical
condition associated with
specific symptoms and
signs

What is the perspective holistic view, the whole person is the patient; not
do we look at when just signs and symptoms
viewing a patient?

What is our approach integrative
when looking at a
patient?

,What is the study of how psychological, neural, and
psychoneuroimmunology endocrine processes together affect the immune
? system and resulting health

-psycho
What systems make up -neurological
PNI -immune
-endocrine

What looks at the PNI
interaction between the
CNS (brain and spinal
cord) and the immune
system (organs and cells)
and how they
communicate with one
another?

Both the CNS and the messengers
immune systems send out -small molecules
what that act as -proteins
messengers between the
2 systems

What signals does the hormones and neurotransmitters
CNS release?

What signals does the cytokines
immune system send
out?

-origin of behavior
PNI describes
-and how we are within the world

What is the idea that traditional biomedical view
illness occurs when the
immune system breaks
down, when the body
fails is when we get
sick...due to stress you
get sick

,What is the idea that Traditional psychoanalytic view
mental illness is a
problem with the mind
separate from the body?

These two views are less
becoming _____ supports
by evidence as time goes
on

Our ____________ affects _____, environment, moods, emotions, behaviors,
________, ________, ___________ and brainwaves, and neurotransmitters
___________ all effect our
health and well being

There are very powerful mind and the body
connections between the
______ and _______

________, _________, and ________ GABA, Serotonin, and Dopamine; gut
are produced by
microbes in the _________

What percentage of 90%
serotonin is produced in
the gut?

What does serotonin mood, appetite, and sleep
regulate?

What do certain increase the # of GABA receptors in the brain
microbes do in our gut
when pertaining to
GABA?

Do psychological factors sometimes, but not always...are there other factors
influence immune could be psychological sometimes
system-mediated disease
or is the presence of a
disease causing agent
sufficient to cause
disease?

, Things going on in our psyche
______ affect our immune
system and if we get sick

What factors determine -we need an:
how resilient we are in --agent
the face of environmental --susceptible host
threats? --environment that brings host and agent together

Immune system disease; infectious disease, auto-immune disease,
compromised of unable cancer
to recognize a foreign
material

PNI is a theoretical -multidisciplinary
perspective and way of -revealing the processes the underlie health and
doing science that is: illness

PNI is the study of the -the brain and neurological system
the body responds to its -endocrine system
environment in a -the immune system
concerted and strategic --all interacting with one another
manner using:

PNI can also be referred PNEI, endocrine isn't always put in the accronym
to as

The study of the PNI
interaction between
psychological processes
and the nervous and
immune systems of the
human body?

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