The University of Free Time of the Center West Brittany received Bluenn Quillerou, psychiatrist, hospital practitioner in public mental health establishment for a conference entitled “Stress and anxiety” Monday, April 28, at the Gourin cinema. In front of 85 people the doctor approached the origins and mechanisms of stress to catatonia.
“Stress is a simple feeling, often punctual, including a response from our brain in reaction to perceived aggression, by increasing the production of corticosteroids. This hormone sends signals to the rest of our organization, which has various consequences on our health. Acute stress is a “normal” response from the body, often necessary to understand and take up challenges. When environmental changes are maintained and the body does not, or more, to face it, stress becomes chronic and affects the hippocampus, seat of memory and emotions, “said Bluenn Quillerou. The psychiatrist then presented the natural (sleep quality, physical activity, balanced diet) and chemical (low -dose anxiolytics) treatments to Treat symptoms of stress.
