Toxic Stress
Unnatural Causes
Disparities
Potpourri
Faculty Trivia
100
Levels of stress in children associated with "excessive, persistent, and/or uncontrollable adversity, without the buffering protection of stable adult support, causing disruptions in brain architecture, affecting other organ systems and establishing relatively lower thresholds for responsiveness that persist throughout life."
What is toxic stress?
100
Food groups that promote health and help prevent disease.
What are fresh vegetables, fruits, legumes (and minimally processed complex carbs)?
100
The institution that produced "Unequal Treatment," a document in response to congress's charge to understand why health disparities exist in this country.
Who is the Institute of Medicine?
100
This 1983 film starring Eddie Murphy and Dan Aykroyd which dramatizes the switching of social station between characters.
What is Trading Places?
100
This bearded faculty member and child development specialist has been known to circumnavigate Long Island. By sailboat!
Who is Dr. Huberman?
200
The circumstances under which the biological stress response can lead to disease.
What is chronic and unremitting activation of the stress response?
200
Characteristics or qualities of a workplace that entail the greatest risk to health.
What is low control and high demand?
200
"Systematic and potentially remediable differences among population groups defined socially, economically, or geographically."
What are healthcare inequities?
200
A dynamic of long-term interpersonal relationships between humans that is often built on an insecure foundation in families where parents are stressed, overworked or otherwise unavailable to their kids because of the effects of poverty.
What is emotional attachment?
200
This faculty member's wife is a medical malpractice attorney. For the good side!
Who is Dr. Landesman?
300
The wear and tear on the body which grows over time when the individual is exposed to repeated or chronic stress.
What is allostatic load?
300
The term that describes the number of people who die in a population beyond what is predicted.
What is excess death?
300
The measure whose improvement improves health in a linear fashion around the world.
What is socioeconomic status?
300
The itinerant subgroup of our population that suffers the highest burden of premature death due to social determinants.
Who are the homeless?
300
This high heeled faculty member from Borough Park has three children--including a set of twins!
Who is Dr. Ovitsch?
400
The two ways that early childhood experience can affect adult health.
What are accumulated damage over time and biological embedding of adversities during sensitive developmental periods?
400
The secretion of this hormone is inversely related to income and level of education.
What is cortisol?
400
The 5 categories of race that are used to classify individuals for the collection of federal statistics. They are based on a 1997 document by the Office of Management and Budget.
What are: 1. white 2. hispanic 3. black 4. asian 5. native american / pacific islander
400
The fundamental molecular epigenetic mechanisms (by which cells differentiate and organisms fine tune their adaptation to the environment).
What are DNA methylation of cytosine and deacetylation of histones? Bonus: micro RNA blocking messenger RNA
400
This former Chief of Service at the Brooklyn VA occasionally travels to Atlanta... to see his grandchildren!
Who is Dr. Adler?
500
One of the policy recommendations made at the end of the Shonkoff article.
What are: 1) adult disease prevention begins with reducing early toxic stress 2) early childhood programs benefit lifelong health, not just education 3) child welfare services should not just focus on physical safety, but also early intervention.
500
The factor that seems to underlie the health benefits of socioeconomic status.
What is CONTROL?
500
The top 1% of Americans holds as much wealth as this bottom segment of the population.
What is the bottom 90%?
500
The most potent protective factor against toxic stress.
What is social and emotional support?
500
This faculty member grew up in Detroit and has at least two children.
Who is The Electrifying Dr. Erogul?
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