PSYC 2113 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Social Anxiety Disorder, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Panic Attack
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Specific phobias: extreme and irrational fear/shyness of a specific object or situation, markedly interferes with one"s ability to function. If someone has a panic attack in the presence of a certain thing, then it is a phobia, not panic disorder: go to great lengths to avoid phobic objects. They reduce physical shaking but do not affect the thought processes causes anxiety: norepinephrine is released by the locus coruleus as a nt and by the adrenal glands as a hormone. Norepinephrine increases blood pressure and heart rate: noradrenergic receptors that are involved in increase bp and. Hr are blocked by beta-receptors: beta-blockers (propanol) and are often used to treat. Ptsd and for performance anxiety: ssri paxil is often used to treat social anxiety disorder, cognitive behavior therapy is the most successful treatment although it works best when the patient is not on medication.
