PSYC 235 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Panic Disorder, Panic Attack, Palpitations
15 Mar 2018
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)nfancy/childhood(cid:499) are now categorized as anxiety, or obsessive compulsive and related. Performance is optimized by anxiety in a low to high range, when anxiety passes the high range and goes into excessive that is when it becomes antiproductive (bell curve). It is abrupt experience of intense fear or acute discomfort accompanied by physical symptoms that usually include: Nausea feeling dizzy or faint: situationally bound (cued) expected panic in a specific situation over another. These are: unexpected (uncued) this is when people do not not come to the conclusion that their symptoms are the result of a actual stimulus or one is not found. Fear or losing control/ or dying common in people suffering from specific & social phobias. We inherit a tendency to be tense or uptight (no single gene seems to cause anxiety). Depleted levels of gaba, part of the gaba-benzodiazepine system, are associated with increased anxiety.
