PSYC 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Child Abuse, Hypervigilance, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
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There are other areas in the brain that is much more involved with ocd. Orbital frontal cortex: deal with learning, reward system, decision-making. Classical conditioning: conditioned to be afraid of being sick, associate germs to sickness, tend to (cid:271)e (cid:272)onstantly reinfor(cid:272)ed (cid:862)tou(cid:272)hing doorkno(cid:271)s, falling si(cid:272)k. associate doorknobs to si(cid:272)kness(cid:863) Must have a stressful event happen to be diagnosed with ptsd. Involuntary, intrusive memories/nightmares/flashbacks (dissociative reactions: thoughts, trauma-related. Risk factors of ptsd: proximity to the event, lack of social support, subsequent stress, childhood abuse, females, low in social economic status, education. Cognitive factors: flashbacks, certain part of the traumatic event. Engage in mathematic cognitive systems: playing tetris, decreases flashbacks. Panic disorder dsm v: dramatically reduced interest or enjoyment in most activities most of the time, anhedonia. Biological perspective: less active frontal lobe on depressed people, reward center, hippocampus, memory, how we remember things, emotions. Inhibitory: serotonin, regulating serotonin regenerates hippocampus (maybe indirect effect)
