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5 days ago · Learn about General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS) and how stress affects the body. Explore the three phases of GAS - alarm, adaptation, and exhaustion - and the physiological changes that occur. Discover how stress weakens the body's resistance to infection and increases the risk of disease.
3 days ago · As previously mentioned, the process by which an organism adapts to a specific stressor to restore the body to homeostasis was initially called the "general adaptation syndrome" before being expanded to what we now refer to as the theory of hormesis (Merry & Ristow, 2016). Paracelsus is quoted as saying: “All things are poisons, for there is ...
1 day ago · 7 10. This article covers the diagnosis and management of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), focusing on key diagnostic principles and evidence-based approaches to improve patient outcomes. This article follows the previous exploration of the historical evolution, diagnostic construct, and aetiological underpinnings of Borderline ...
3 days ago · Background The distribution of body fat and metabolic health may contribute to the onset of metabolic syndrome (MetS), but the associations between body fat anthropometric indices (AIs) and mortality in individuals with MetS remain unclear. Methods Participants aged 18 years or older with MetS were recruited from the NHANES 1999–2018. The body fat anthropometric indices included the a body shape index (ABSI), body roundness index (BRI), cardiometabolic index (CMI), visceral adiposity index ...
4 days ago · DoC are characterized by alterations in arousal and/or content, being classified as coma, unresponsive wakefulness syndrome/vegetative state, minimally conscious state, and confusional state. Patients with willful modulation of brain activity detectable by functional MRI or EEG but not by behavioral examination is a state also known as covert consciousness or cognitive motor dissociation.
3 days ago · The defining feature of ALS is the death of both upper motor neurons (located in the motor cortex of the brain) and lower motor neurons (located in the brainstem and spinal cord). [76] In ALS with frontotemporal dementia, neurons throughout the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain die as well. [77]
2 days ago · A regular physical activity has demonstrated in general population great benefits in reducing the risk of IR and improving whole-body insulin sensitivity. Muscle contraction during exercise stimulates improvements in insulin sensitivity whose molecular mechanisms are linked to the translocation of GLUT4 to the cell membrane and thereby increasing glucose uptake [ 100 ].
