01:830:340 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Tachycardia, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Sympathetic Nervous System
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Can improve athletic, social, and academic experiences. Getting ready to leave or fight off the problem. Anxiety, trauma- and stressor-related, and obsessive-compulsive and related disorders: part one. When we feel anxious, there is more bloodflow to the brain, so it allows us to think better. When anxiety is chronic or too intense, it can become a problem. If parents are anxious, you might be anxious as well. Stimulates the release of adrenaline and cortisol. Affects memory, alertness, and thinking and planning. Notices something and then thinks about it and becomes anxious. Threat hypothalamus (midbrain) sympathetic nervous system. Threat hypothalamus (midbrain) adrenal-cortical system. Lack of control general sense of uncontrollability. Children grow up believing that their environment is controllable. Encourage their children to cope and explore independently. Can prevent their children from experiencing threatening experiences. Children don"t know how to deal with challenges and don"t develop coping skills. External neutral cues or internal cues cr of fear.
