PSYCH 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 40: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Panic Disorder, Panic Attack
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Friday, december 8th 8:30 - 9:50 am: smi 205, monday, dec 11th 4:30 - 6:00 pm, eeb 125. Final exam: wednesday, december 13th 2:30 - 4:20 pm. Sometimes they misinterpret those sensations: obsessive-compulsive disorder, obsessions, repetitive and unwelcome thoughts, images, or impulses, compulsions, repetitive behavioral responses, biological, antidepressants can help reduce ocd behaviors, psychological, psychoanalytic perspective. Hoarding disorder: people with hoarding disorder, have a conscious, ongoing urge to accumulate possessions, as well as corresponding feelings of anxiety or mental anguish whenever those possessions get thrown away. Anxiety disorders: biological factors, overactive autonomic nervous system (fight or flight, overactive neurotransmitter systems involved in emotional responses, gaba (inhibitory neurotransmitter, not enough gaba -> anxiety increases. Increasing gaba -> decreases anxiety: overactive right hemisphere sites involved in emotions, psychological factors, neurotic anxiety, occurs when unacceptable impulses threaten to overwhelm the ego"s defenses and explode into consciousness, cognitive factors, maladaptive thought patterns and beliefs.
