PSY 034 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Insular Cortex, Reflex Syncope, Panic Disorder

• School: College of The Sequoias
• Department: Psychology (PSY)
• Course: PSY 034
• Professor: Vannasone

Document Summary

A biologically inherited vulnerability to be overly reactive to daily events. Stress may be added to this diathesis. These factors may establish as predisposition to associate the alarm response with internal and external cues (i. e. , moving to a learned alarm response) There may be an increase in interoceptive awareness. Exposure-based (to panic sensations) involves gradual exposure exercises combined with anxiety-reducing coping skills, such as relaxation and breathing retraining. Cognitive therapy cognitive-behavior therapies are quite effective for panic. High degree of efficacy- as many as 70% of patients undergoing these treatments substantially improve, but very few are cured. Extreme and irrational fear or anxiety about a specific object or situation. Person recognizes the fear is unreasonable or excessive. The phobic object or situation is actively avoided or endured with intense fear. The fear or anxiety is out of proportion to the actual danger posed by the. Significant impairment or interfering with normal life object or situation or anxiety.