PSY396H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Autoreceptor, Amnesia, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
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Anxiety is suppose to be acute episodes but not chronic. People who are diagnosed have this interfering. Definitions: fear: is a natural response to a threat phobias: are an unrealistic response to something that is non threatening panic attacks: extremely intense and unpredictable. Comes with behavioral and cognitive symptoms anxiety: a generalized feeling of fear. Start to feel anxiety because they don"t know when the next one will come. Experienced only when person in social and interpersonal settings. Anxiety people seems fine outside, inside you feel differently. Those with social phobias respond to ssri really well. Bnzd: less addictive but suseptible for breathing problems. If someone is taking bnzd and drinking= dangerous. Bnzd are used for alcholics to get off drinking. Delay of onset: takes a long time. The bnzd dissolve in mouth and fast onset. A lot of doctors might give beta blockers while in therapyas well as waiting for the sertonergic drugs to take affect.
