The Mind-Body Link
(PNI & Emotions)
(PNI & Emotions)
This field of study focuses on the multidirectional interconnections between the central nervous system, mind, endocrine system, and immune system.
What is Psychoneuroimmunology?
DeAngelis described this specific type of outdoor activity as beneficial to integrate into therapy sessions due to its positive impact on mental and physical health.
What are walks/exercise in nature?
This evidence-based practice offers numerous cognitive benefits, including improved academic performance for youth and enhanced intellectual capacities among patients with Alzheimer's.
What is regular exercise?
Sarris and colleagues presented this model of evidence-based and evidence-guided treatments, including health-promoting lifestyle changes, to address the global mental illness pandemic.
What is the biopsychosociospiritual model?
According to Walsh, this is the stance of the majority of psychotherapists regarding discussing and recommending therapeutic lifestyle factors to their clients.
What is not eager/reluctant?
According to Karren and colleagues, this is how all illnesses are influenced, directly affecting our physical health.
What is how we think and feel?
Research shows that engaging in exercise in nature can immediately reduce these three negative feelings.
What are anger, sadness, and anxiety?
This is one type of mental health disorder, including moderate depression, that can be avoided and/or treated with exercise.
What is psychiatric or mental health disorders?
Despite their efficacy for some symptoms, this is what the literature, summarized by Sarris and fellow authors, does not consistently demonstrate regarding conventional psychopharmacological medications.
What is cost effectiveness and widespread efficacy for all serious symptoms?
The Hölzel et al. study on an 8-week mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) program includes yoga, body scan, and sitting meditation, but does not include this specific component.
What is Tai chi?
Emotions trigger the production of these, which influence the immune system, providing evidence that emotions can cause illness.
What are hormones?
This is what Kuo's research suggests happens to children's academic gains in science, math, reading, and writing skills the more time they spend in nature.
What is they increase/become greater?
Exercise, good nutrition, and meditation are examples of three lifestyle factors that tend to have this protective effect, reducing the risk of age-related cognitive losses.
What are neuroprotective?
This is the true association between religious involvement and mental health, contrary to the claim that studies yield mostly negative associations.
What is a positive association?
One significant outcome of the 8-week mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) program, as studied by Hölzel et al., was an increase in this brain structure.
What is regional brain gray matter density?
This describes the two-way flow of information between the brain and the immune system.
What is bidirectional flow?
Dr. Weil explained that these microscopic organisms, outnumbering our own cells, are essential to our health by helping digest food, reduce inflammation, and boost immunity.
What are microbes?
(DAILY DOUBLE!): According to Bell (2021), name these four strategies for becoming more consistent in your physical life.
What are be fully engaged in the moment, anticipate the dip, get back to the basics, and find an accountability partner?
This describes the empirical evidence for a positive relationship between social capital (community connections and interpersonal relationships) and mental and physical health benefits.
What is sufficient empirical evidence?
Which vitamin, especially for those with deficiencies, was recommended by Dr. Walsh as a nutritional supplement to avoid psychopathology and support mental health?
What is Vitamin D?
This is the impact that aging, including its personal, social, vocational, and economic experiences, has on the function of the immune system.
What is a negative impact?
Weil concluded that exposure to these, commonly used in US food production, is damaging to children’s nervous systems and contributes to cancer and neurological disorders in adults.
What are pesticides?
Dr. Walsh introduced this new field, which studies the influence of food and nutrition on genetic expression, particularly regarding omega-3s.
What is psychonutrigenomics? (Moved from original 800-point slot)
According to Suttie, mindfulness meditation is good for health, enhancing mood, reducing anxiety, slowing cognitive decline, and improving cardiovascular health and the immune system, but it does not enable this.
What is ego transcendence?
(DAILY DOUBLE!): This is the term for the entire system of cells, tissues, and organs that work together to protect the body from disease.
What is the immune system?