PSY 3171 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Clomipramine, Antihypertensive Drug, Acute Stress Reaction
1 Feb 2017
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Taken over her whole life and her families lives. Order and placement is key, must talk herself through tasks. Needs the feeling of just right, actions based on feeling instead of observation, Intrusive, repetitive unwanted thoughts thoughts are egodystonic: compulsions: Repetitive behaviours or mental acts engaged in to reduce distress caused by obsessions. 1. 6%-2. 3% of population (calamari et al. , 2012; kessler et al. , 2005: gender, 1-1 ratio, onset: Before age of 10 more common in men; associated with checking compulsions, greater severity. Later onset more common in women, associated with cleaning compulsions: very debilitating. Associated with highest intensity use of mental health services. Biological vulnerability in ocd: genetic vulnerability, high rates of anxiety in rst-degree relatives. October 19, 2016: prevalence 10. 3% in rst-degree relatives, biological vulnerability, frontal cortex, basal ganglia, putamen. Cognitive-behavioural treatment: exposure and ritual prevention (erp) Exposure to situations that elicit obsessive thoughts. October 19, 2016: cognitive behavioural therapy erp.
