Depression treatment ✅- can be difficult (because cause is not clear!)
- drugs influence dopamine, serotonin, norepinephrine and glucocoticoids
- delayed drug effects (weeks)
Brain areas associated with emotion and HPA regulation ✅- decreased prefrontal
cortex activity
- decreased angular cingulate activity
- decrreased hippocampal activity
- increased amygdala activity
Atheroscelorsis ✅arteries narrowed by cholesterol in the walls (plaques)
Myocardial infarction ✅small vessels on heart surface are blocked by clot of burst
plaque
infectious diseases ✅rheumatic fever
, cholesterol ✅- waxy substance, part of out cell walls (precursor to steroid hormones)
- hypercholesterolemia: strong risk facto for CVD
- cholesterol carried by lipoproteins
LDL ✅Low Densitty Lipoprotein Cholesterol
- sticks to artery walls
- gets under artery lining
- consumed by immune cells
- <100 = good
HDL ✅High Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol
- collects fats out of the artery walls
- carries fat back to the liver to be broken down
- >37 = good
T-cells ✅form the "fatty streak" the earliest form of plaque
Blood pressure ✅force the blood exerts against artery walls
systolic blood pressure ✅the highest pressure in the system, right after heart pumps.
the "top number"
Diastolic BP ✅the lowest pressure while the heart rests. the "bottom number"
Behaviors that can lower blood pressure ✅Lowering sodium, increasing potassium,
calcium• DASH diet---fruits, vegetables, low fat dairy • Nuts---walnuts, pistachios • Plant
protein• Fiber• Exercise, a single workout can lower bp for a few hours• Moderate
alcohol (1 drink/d for women, 2/d for men)
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