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| An interdiciplinary field that integrates behavioral and medical knoledge and applies that knowledge to health and disease. |
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| A subfield of psychology that provides psychologys contribution to behavioral medicine. |
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| the process by which we percieve and respond to certain events called stressors, that we appraise as threatening or challenging. |
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| General Adaption Syndrome (GAS) |
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| Hans Selye's concept of the body's adaptive response to stress in three stages: alarm, resistance, exhaustion |
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| clogging of the vessels that nourish the heart muscle; leading cause of death in many developing countries. |
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| Friedman and Rosenman's term for competitive, hard-driving, impatient, verbally agressive, and anger prone people. |
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| Friedman and Rosenman's term for competitive, hard-driving, impatient, verbally agressive, and anger prone people. |
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| Friedman and Rosenman's term for easygoing, relaxed people. |
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| psychophisiological illness |
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| literally "mind-body" illness; any stress related illness such as hypertension and headaches |
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| two types of white blood cells that are part of the immune system; B lymphocytes form in the bone marrow and release antibodes, T lymphocytes form in the thymus and attack cancers, viruses and foreign substances. |
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| Sustained excersize that increases heart and lung fitness, may also alleviate depression and anxiety |
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| a system of electronically recording, amplifying, and feeding back of information regarding a subtle physiological state |
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| contemporary and alternative medicine |
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| unproven health care treatments not taught widely in medical schools, not used in hospitals, and not usually reimbursed by insurance companies |
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