PSYC 235 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Panic Disorder, Cancer Pain, Nociceptor
15 Nov 2017
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Panic disorder and chd often co-occur: chd patients with comorbid panic disorder suffer higher morbidity and mortality rates that pure chd patients. Conclusion: chronic experience of negative emotions of stress (anger), anxiety (fear or panic), and depression and the neurobiological activation that accompanies these emotions provide most important psychosocial contributions to. Estimated medical expense due to chronic pain exceeds billion annually. 80% of physician visits are due to pain. More than 18% of canadians have severe chronic pain. Cause of chronic pain: psychological and social. Pain behaviours: overt manifestations of pain experience eg. changing way one sits or walks, complaining about pain, grimacing, activity avoidance. Specifically enforcing pain behaviours (especially in absence of social support) may reinforce these behaviours. Biological aspects: gate control theory, nerve impulses from painful stimuli make their way to spinal column and from there to brain.
