PSYCH 470 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Thalamus, Panic Attack, Psych
12 Sep 2016
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Chapter 8 notes o an innate response to a dangerous or life threatening situation. Anxiety: o the state in which an individual is inordinately apprehensive, tense, and uneasy about the prospect of something terrible happening. Anxiety disorders: people with anxiety disorders are incapacitated by chronic and intense feelings of anxiety o o o. Presence of obsessions, compulsions, or both: obsessions: unwelcome, uncontrollable, and persistent ideas, thoughts, or creates a significant distress or anxiety. Compulsions: repetitive, excessive, meaningless activities or mental exercises that a person performs in an attempt to avoid distress or wrong. The obsessions or compulsions are time consuming (take 1+ hour or day), or cause clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning. Changes from dsm-iv to dsm-5: new chapter: ocd: related disorders (previously anxiety disorders, all have obsessive pre-occupation, disorders have common features- obsessive preoccupation repetitive behaviors.
