Topics of lectures and exercises:
1. Stress - basic concepts
2. Stressors
3. Stress management - basic concept
4. Stress and neurohormonal processes
5. Stress, immunity and immune diseases
6. Stress and cardiometabolic diseases
7. Stress, depression and anxiety
8. practical exercises for coping with stress - movement and breathing
9. practical exercises for managing stress - voice and breath
10. guidelines for work-life balance
The course aims to familiarize students with the biomedical aspects of acute and chronic diseases in the form of lectures and seminars stress, stress reaction, its functional metabolic response, as well as the etiopathogenesis of various psychosomatic disease. Furthermore, in the form of practical exercises, students will become familiar with techniques and methods of managing stereo situations and planning work/study time with regard to work-life balance.