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| 12505055 | behavioral medicine | An interdiciplinary field that integrates behavioral and medical knowledge and applies that knowledge to health and disease | |
| 12505056 | health psychology | A subfield of psychology that provides psychology's contribution to behavioral medicine | |
| 12505057 | stress | The processes by which we perceive and respond to certain events, called stressors, that we appraise as threatening or challenging | |
| 12505058 | general adaptation syndrome | Salye's concept of the body's adaptive responses to stress in three stages - alarm, resistance, exhaustion | |
| 12505059 | coronary heart disease | The clogging of the vessels that nourish the heart muscle; the leading cause of death in many developed countries | |
| 12505060 | Type A | Friedman and Rosenman's term for competitive, hard-driving, impatient, verbally aggressive, and anger-prone people | |
| 12505061 | Type B | Friedman and Rosenman's term for easygoing, relaxed people | |
| 12505062 | psychophysical illness | Any stress-related physical illness | |
| 12505063 | lymphocytes | The two types of white blood cells that are part of the body's immune system | |
| 12505064 | aerobic exercise | Sustained exercise that increases heart and lung fitness; may also alleviate depression and anxiety | |
| 12505065 | biofeedback | A system for electronically recording, amplifying, and feeding back information regarding a subtle physiological state | |
| 12505066 | complementary and alternative medicine | Unproven health care treatments not taught widely in medical schools, not used in hospitals, and usually reimbursed by insurance companies |
