CAS PS 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 37: Anxiety Disorder, Autonomic Nervous System, Neurotransmitter

• School: Boston University
• Department: Psychological & Brain Sciences
• Course: CAS PS 101
• Professor: Tracy Dunne

Document Summary

Anxiety disorder (physiological) caused by too much dopamine. Biological factor: overreactive autonomic nervous system, overreactive neurotransmitter system involved, overreactive right hemisphere sites involved in emotions. Psychodynamic theory: neurotic anxiety, occurs when unacceptable impulses threaten to overwhelm the ego"s defenses. Cognitive factor: maladaptive thought patterns and beliefs (negative thoughts and mindset, exaggerated misinterpretations of stimuli ( oh god i"m going to die instead of i"m feeling tired ) Learned responses: result of emotional conditioning (emotional response came from classical conditioning) same stimulus, reacted with fear, observative learning (learned from others) Somatoform disorders: happens when person experiences physical symptoms that cannot be fully explained by any underlying general medical or neurologic condition. Eg: weekness, paralysis, abnormal gait, loss of hearing and physical senses, etc . Involve physical complaints that suggest medical problem but with no biological causes. Hypochondria: great alarm about physical systems, convinced of serious illness, develops during adulthood, symptoms: long term and intense fear of serious illness.