PSY 3171 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Cholecystokinin, Gene Polymorphism, Paresthesia

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 3171
• Professor: Guergana Roumenova Mileva;

Document Summary

Lecture 3: anxiety and related disorders pt 1. Anxiety: affective state - individual feels threatened by a perceived future threat. Fear: primitive emotional state occurs in response to real or perceived threat, triggers the fight or flights response. Panic: similar to fear, but can be triggered without a provoking event. Until the 20th century many mental disorders were considered neuroses. Until 1980 anxiety disorders were grouped with the disociative and somatoform disorders under the heading neuroses. Twin studies shoe high heritability in anxiety disorders, 30-40% of twine have the same disorder. Combination of gene and environment interactions: neurotransmitters and neuroanatomy. Benzodiazepines (xanx- very addictive) are very helpful for anxiety. Amygdala- fear learning and conditioning, emotional processing, Observational learning, if your parents are scared of snakes, you most likely will be too, based on their behavior. Beck: people are afraid because of the perceptions they have about the world, future and themselves: interpersonal.