Stress and its Mechanisms - PFYB651

• Title: Stress and its Mechanisms
• Guaranteed by: Fyziologie (51-500200)
• Faculty: Faculty of Physical Education and Sport
• Actual: from 2021
• Semester: summer
• Points: 0
• E-Credits: 4
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:2/0, MC [HT]
• Extent per academic year: 7 [hours]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (20)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: cancelled
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: doc. RNDr. PhDr. Ing. Jana Jaklová Dytrtová, Ph.D.

Annotation

English

Last update: Mgr. Ivana Kinkorová, Ph.D. (21.05.2019)

The aim of the course is to acquaint students with biomedical aspects of acute and chronic stress, stress response, its functionally metabolic response, as well as the etiopathogenesis of various psychosomatic diseases.

Czech

Last update: PUCHMERTLOVA/FTVS.CUNI.CZ (27.02.2008)

Předmět má formou přednášek a seminářů seznámit studenty s biomedicinskými aspekty akutního a chronického stresu, stresové reakce, její funkčně metabolickou odezvou, i s etiopatogenezí různých psychosomatických onemocnění.

Literature

Last update: doc. Mgr. Michal Šteffl, Ph.D. (01.05.2015)

• Handouts from the teacher

• McEWEN, M.S. (2007) Physiology and Neurobiology of Stress and Adaptation: Central Role of the Brain. Physiological Reviews 87(3), 873-904.

• CACIOPPO, J.T., TASSING, L.G., & BERNTSON, G.G. Handbook of Psychophysiology. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2007

• COHEN, S., JANICKI-DEVERTS, D., MILLER, G.E (2007) Psychological stress and disease. JAMA 298 (14), 1685-7.

• MOIDEEN, T. Fight, flight, and physiology of stress. 2008, http://blogs.britannica.com/2008/09/fight-flight-and-the-physiology-of-stress/

• TSIGOS, C., KYROU, I., & CHROUSOS, G. Stress, endocrine physiology and pathophysiology. 2004, http://www.endotext.org/adrenal/adrenal8/adrenal8.htm

Requirements to the exam

Last update: doc. Mgr. Michal Šteffl, Ph.D. (01.05.2015)

Requirements for credit:

• 80 % of presence

• poster presentation

Syllabus

Last update: doc. Mgr. Michal Šteffl, Ph.D. (01.05.2015)

Lecture:

1. Introduction, characteristics of stress, different conceptions, non-specific and specific concepts, clashes, criticism. Stressors. Stress phases. Acute and chronic stress.

2. Neurobiology of stress. Anatomic structures and neurohumoral regulations. Hormonal interaction during stress.

3. Manifestations of stress reaction. Functional and metabolic changes during stress, stress and immunity, most commonly monitored effects of stress.

4. People in extreme conditions and situations. Starvation, thirst, unfavourable climatic changes, accidents, falls, overstrain.

5. Stress and pain . Mental stress and psychic resistance (types of extreme situations, types of human reactions, possibilities of survival in acute states, delayed reactions). Causes of civilization stress, psychological manifestations in physiological and pathological domain, cortico-visceral theory of the origin of psychosomatic diseases

6. Students presentations.

7. Students presentations. Credit