Health
Like emotions and stuff we have to know...
Terms
undefined, object
copy deck
- Hormones
- chemical messangers, manufactured and secreted by endocrine glands that regulate metabolism and influence body growth, mood, and sexual characteristics
- Depression
- mental state characterized by pessimistic state of inadequacy and lack of activity; sad feelings of gloom
- Bi-Polar/Manic Depressive
- mood disorder; alternationg periods of depression and mania
- Chronic
- constant, habitual, having long had a disease, habit weakness
- Sad
- emotion experienced when not in a state of well-being
- Dopamine
- neurotransmitter in central nervous systemm, acting within brain to help pregulate movement and emotion
- Hyper
- having an excitable or nervous temperement; emotionally stimulated, overxcited
- Mania
- excessively intense enthusiasm, interest or desire, a craze manifestation of bi-polar disorder, characterized by profuse, rapidly changing ideas, exaggerated sexuality, irritability, decreased sleep, violent, abnormal behavior
- Anxiety
- intense emotion response; repressed confli t about to emerge
- Anxiety Disorders
- physiological arousal, feelings of tension, intense apprehension without apparent reason
- Depressive Disorder
- mental state so severe that it requires clinical intervention
- Neurotransmitters
- chemical messengers released from neuron to neuron
- Serotonin
- substance found in many animal tissues; neurotransmitter involved in the control of pain perception, sleep-wake cycle and mood