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EMOTIONAL

Has anyone classified you as a "Type A" personality? If you are a workaholic, impatient, achievement oriented, and time pressured, you fit the description of this type. To some degree, the majority of medical students valued these qualities and traits as necessary for acceptance to medical school.

It is due to these qualities and traits however, that medical students and physicians are at risk for certain diseases including heart disease and ulcers. Emotional make-up appears to play a major role in modulating this risk. In 1990, Smith and Pope found that anger was the key to the development of coronary disease in Type A populations.

Candice Pert, PhD, a neuroscientist formerly with NIH has been exploring neuropeptides that flow throughout the body with the ability to bind and react with receptors found on every cell in the body. She calls these neuropeptides "the biochemicals of emotion."

Emotions are stored in the body waiting to be called up by neuropeptides binding to receptors. In essence then, when a person feels happy, every cell in their body experiences happiness. Research shows that the immune system is enhanced during happiness and is depressed by continuous emotional depression.

Emotions are stored in the body waiting to be called up by neuropeptides binding to receptors. In essence then, when a person feels happy, every cell in their body experiences happiness. Research shows that the immune system is enhanced during happiness and is depressed by continuous emotional depression. Thus our emotional state plays a significant role in our ability to fight illness and cancer. This fascinating field is called "psychoneuroimmunology."

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