PSY 309 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Paroxetine, Systematic Desensitization, Venlafaxine

• School: University of Oregon
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 309
• Professor: Gordon Hall

Document Summary

Suicide: suicide attempt rates, similar to major depression, 20% of panic patients attempt suicide (see anxiety disorders table in textbook) Agoraphobia ex fear of leaving one"s house. Prevalence and lifetime morbidity risk of anxiety disorders (see slide for table) Fear circuitry: amygdala (interacts with prefrontal cortex and hippocampus) - anxiety disorders, target of anti-anxiety medication tries to desensitize the fear network/circuitry. Gender and lifetime risk for anxiety disorders: a study of 15 countries (see table in slides) Japan - taijin kyofusho: fear of offending others or making them uncomfortable, concern about aspects of personal appearance (e. g. , stuttering, blushing, body odor, more common in males. Because she suffers from taijin kyofusho, we would expect her to fear ___. Causes of sad: generalized psychological vulnerability, e. g. , belief that threatening events are uncontrollable, generalized biological vulnerability, e. g. , propensity toward anxiety. Placebo + se = reduced social phobia slightly. Prozac + se = improved social phobia more than placebo.