Emotion, learning and health Preston Lodge High School 26 th
October Slide 2 20 th century trends in life expectancy in Scotland
and 16 other Western European countries Males 30 40 50 60 70 80
19001910192019301940195019601970198019902000 Year of birth Life
expectancy in years Scotland Slide 3 Its all about the brain Slide
4 All shapes and sizes! Slide 5 Aaron Antonovsky 1923-1994 Slide 6
Slide 7 0 1 2 3 4 5 00.511.522.533.544.55 Q1 :4.18 mg/l Years in
study % diabetic CRP and cumulative risk of type 2 diabetes Freeman
et al. Diabetes 2002,51;1596 Slide 30 Adipocyte programming insulin
resistance, inflammation and ALP Adipose stores NEFAs liver CRP SAA
IL-6/IL-6sR TNF- TNF- sR-I triglyceride Low HDL small LDL
Atherogenic Lipoprotein Phenotype Pro-inflammatory state skeletal
muscle Insulin resistance Slide 31 The Stroop Test a test of
response inhibition Say the colour names of the shapes Say the word
names Say the names of the colours that the words are printed in
ShapesWords Slide 32 pSoBid: Stroop test p9,000 per day 250,000 per
month in the young adult rat (Cameron & McKay, 2001) Slide 42
Adult neurogenesis in the hippocampus ? Slide 43 20 th century
trends in life expectancy in Scotland and 16 other Western European
countries Males 30 40 50 60 70 80
19001910192019301940195019601970198019902000 Year of birth Life
expectancy in years Scotland Slide 44 Slide 45 Fit or fat?
