PSY 212 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Migraine, Amygdala, Coronary Artery Disease
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Involves hair pulling that causes significant distress and results in hair loss. Recurrent picking of the skin and resultant skin lesions. Orbital frontal cortex: genetic factors, biochemical abnormalities: May account for half of variance in hoarding. Obsessive compulsive behaviors develop because they reduce anxiety: cognitive characteristics. Social and sociocultural dimensionis: family variables. Biological treatments: partial relief with antidepressant and benzodiazepines. Behavioral treatments: often relapse after medication stops, exposure, plus response prevention, flooding: placing client in high anxiety situation. Stressor: external event or situation that places a physical or psychological demand on a person. Stress: range from chronic irritation to acute a traumatic events, internal psychological or physiological response to a stressor. Both begin with a normative reaction that occurs when an individual faces some type of danger. Fear response remains even though original basis for fear is no longer present. Acute stress disorder (asd: anxiety and dissociative symptoms that occur within one month after exposure to a traumatic stressor.
