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Measuring Your Stress Level Subscribe
Read this article and take the Stress Quiz to analyze your stress level and learn more about the stress response:
http://www.helpguide.org/mental/stress_signs.htm
What was your stress score? What chronic stressors do you face? What acute stressors have you experienced in the last week? What steps can you take to handle your stress?
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The Neurobiology of Depression Subscribe
What regions of the brain and neurotransmitters are associated with the symptoms of depression? What regions are activated by stress? How are the stress response and depression related?
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Stress and the Immune Response Subscribe
Have you ever developed a cold, a cold sore, or another illness after a particularly stressful time in your life, such as after a move, during the holidays, or after meeting a deadline? Do a little research to explain what component of the stress response interacts with our immune system to allow this to happen.
For this post, give an example of when this happened to you. Explain the interaction between components of the stress response and your immune system. Choose one or two methods of stress management and explain how you could incorporate it (or them) into your life.
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Stress and the Gut-Brain Axis Subscribe
Do some research to define the terms enteric nervous system, and microbiome. Then read the article about the Gut-brain axis: How the microbiome influences anxiety and depression by Foster and Neufeld (2013) in Trends in Neuroscience. For this discussion, explain how our microbiome contributes to digestion, and how microbes can activate pathways in the CNS. How does this relate to digestion?
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Stress and Reproduction Subscribe
Stress has been related to low fecundity (reproductive success) in all animal populations. Evolutionarily, the stress pathway that enables prey to escape predators and animals to evade danger can have harmful effects when activated over long periods of time. In populations of animals, limited resources and low nutrition trigger pathways of response to the long-term stressors associated with overcrowding that result in low reproductive success. Do a little research on infertility in the United States. How does the stress response relate to infertility in our modern population?
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