Syllabus
1. Introduction, characteristics of stress, different conceptions, non-specific and specific concepts, clashes, criticism. Stressors. Stress phases. Acute and chronic stress.
2. Manifestations of stress reaction.
3. Neurobiology of the stress reaction.
4. Anatomic structures and neurohumoral regulations. Hormonal interaction during stress.
5. Functional and metabolic changes during stress, stress and immunity, most commonly monitored effects of stress.
6. Stress and pain. Stress and alcohol.
7. People in extreme conditions and situations. Starvation, thirst, unfavourable climatic changes, accidents, falls, overstrain
8. Mental stress and psychic resistance (types of extreme situations, types of human reactions, possibilities of survival in acute states, delayed reactions).
9. Voice and movement therapy. Dealing with chronic stress.
10. Stress and gender. Stress and emotions.
11. Causes of civilization stress, psychological manifestations in physiological and pathological domain, cortico-visceral theory of the origin of psychosomatic diseases
12. Kineziotherapy as an antistress therapy
13. Students presentations. Credit
14. Students presentations. Credit
Annotation
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.
The aim of the course is to acquire theoretical knowledge of physiology and physiology of exercise and their application in clinical practice.