PSYCH 2010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Panic Disorder, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Dissociative Disorder
29 Apr 2017
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It may be causes by the dopamine hypothesis (having too much in some circuits and not enough in others), but there are also diathesis-stress indications. Major depressive disorder lifetime risk: 5-12% in men and 10-26% in women, can cause suicide. Dysthymic disorder less severe form of depression (may lead to mmd) Bipolar disorder used to be manic depression. It"s a disorder (cid:449)ith cogniti(cid:448)e-behavioral aspects of arbitrary inference (belief without evidence), magnification of negative stuff), minimization of positive stuff, and tunnel vision. There are also biological and environmental factors too, like diatheses-stress again. Generalized anxiety disorder person is tense and in a state of autonomic nervous system arousal. Obsessive-compulsive disorder (ocd) not technically an. Phobia persistent, irrational fear of a specific object or situation (including social phobias) anxiety disorder because it has its own chapter, but so closely related there"s (cid:448)irtually nothing that sets it apart.
