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The discomfort you feel when you're sick is largely due to your body's immune response rather than the infection itself. Cytokines and other molecules trigger symptoms like fever, aches, and fatigue to help your body fight off pathogens, although this process can also affect your mood and cognitive functions by disrupting neurotransmitter activity in the brain.
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The surprising reason you feel awful when you're sick - Marco A. Sotomayor
Concepts covered:immune response, cytokines, prostaglandin E2, hypothalamus, neurotransmitters
The discomfort you feel when you're sick is largely due to your body's immune response rather than the infection itself. Cytokines and other molecules trigger symptoms like fever, aches, and fatigue to help your body fight off pathogens, although this process can also affect your mood and cognitive functions by disrupting neurotransmitter activity in the brain.
Question 1
Cytokines can affect emotions by reaching the limbic system.
Question 2
Why do you feel irritable when sick?
Question 3
What happens when a pathogen enters your body?
Question 4
CASE STUDY: You have a patient with flu-like symptoms who is experiencing high fever, muscle aches, and loss of appetite. The patient asks why they feel so uncomfortable.
All of the following explain the symptoms except...
Question 5
CASE STUDY: A researcher is studying the effects of cytokines on the brain and wants to understand their role in flu symptoms.
Select three effects of cytokines on the brain.
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