stress

Ultradian

... though dosing may be difficult due to situational stress and other environmental factors. Researchers are working to understand the brain chemistry basis of mood states in an effort to better diagnose and treat Bipolar Disorder. This research shows the promise of finding biological determinants for Ultr...

Telephone Triage

...ty, managers discovered that the high-stakes, high stress work required seasoned RNs with many years of “bedside” decision-making experience. Thus, new graduates were not considered the best candidates for the task of telephone triage. Certainly, there are exceptions to this rule. However, we know that les...

Sexual orientation and medicine

...r rates of smoking, overweight, alcohol abuse, and stress than heterosexual women. The issues surrounding personal, family, and social acceptance of sexual orientation can place a significant burden on mental health and personal safety. – Healthy People 2010 [4] 2004 New York Medical College ...

Pre-conditioning

...pt in which an entity is exposed to a form of some stress or stimulus in order to prepare that entity to be more resilient against the stimulus when and if the stimulus is encountered in the future. For example, a human may be exposed to artificially weakened virus in order to stimulate an antibody producti...

Patient trade-off

...tients (and physicians for that matter) experience stress owing to trade-off between different treatment opt... Given this stressful situation in addition to the stress of being diagnosed with cancer it is of great concern that eight out of ten prostate cancer patients...

Pathology

...jury Cells and tissues may respond to injury and stress by specific mechanisms, which may vary accroding to the cell types and nature of the injury. In the short term, cells may activate specific genetic programs to protect their vital proteins and organelles from heat shock or hypoxia , and may ac...

Medical procedure

...rature examination Diagnostic Cardiac stress test Electrocardiography Electroencephalography Endoluminal capsule monitoring Electrocorticography Electroencephalography Electromyography Electronystagmography Electrooculography Electroretinography Evoked potential ...

Extracorporeal shockwave therapy

... tendinitis, achilles tendinitis, pseudoarthrosis, stress fractures and shoulder calcification. There is also an FDA study to treat recalcitrant diabetic wounds. There are a couple of theories as to how ESWT helps promote healing. The most accepted one is that the microtrauma of the repeated ultrasound s...

Directed attention fatigue

...thy, or accidents, and can contribute to increased stress levels. DAF is caused by concentrating too much in the midst of external or internal distractions. Inhibitory attention chemicals are replenished during sleep , so lack of sleep can increase the likelihood of directed attention fatigue. Researche...