PSYCH 303 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder, Virtual Reality, Thought Suppression
23 Mar 2016
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Anxiety about being in an unescapable/challenging place during a panic atack, embarrassment. Disinct dsm-5 disorder, involves behavior changes (taking a dog/stroller/companion, avoid stressful situaions, constantly refocusing thoughts) 30-40% geneic heritability (linked to temperamental narcissism), involves low serotonin and low gaba, acive limbic system (amygdala), based on cogniive distorions (anxiety sensiivity, catastrophizing) Learning model: panic atacks are condiioned to physiological cues, interocepive awareness. Treatment: tricyclics, ssris and benzodiazepines, cbt most efecive (relaxaion exercises, idenify faulty cogniion, induce panic in safe spaces, engage in restructuring, desensiizaion to triggers) Biological vulnerability leads to catastrophic cogniions, which lead to atacks and increased hyper-vigilance for biological signs in the future (reinforcing feedback) Afect 12% of populaion, more common in women (vastly more for speciic phobias, less imbalanced for social phobias) Speciic phobias involve a persistent, disproporionate fear of something, exposure to simuli invokes an instant anxiety response. Animal, natural environment (height/water), situaional (elevator), atypical (vomit, small round objects) subtypes.
