Psychology › Section N · Stress, lifestyle, and health › Topic N.3
Stress and illness
The stress response evolved to get us through a few minutes of danger, yet many people run it for months over bills, jobs and relationships. This topic follows the evidence on what that does to the immune system, the heart, the lungs and even our cells.
In this topic
- An emergency system left switched on
- Psychophysiological disorders
- The immune system and psychoneuroimmunology
- How stress weakens immune defences
- Worked example: reading a cold-virus experiment
- Stress and ageing cells
- Stress and the heart: from Type A to hostility
- Worked example: a hostility cycle
- Depression, negative emotion and the heart
- Asthma and tension headaches
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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