PSYCH 2AP3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Panic Attack, Panic Disorder, Carl Friedrich Otto Westphal
3 Mar 2017
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Ch 5 anxiety, trauma-related, and obsessive-compulsive disorders. Anxiety: negative mood state characterized by bodily symptoms of physical tension and apprehension about the future. Panic attack: abrupt experience of intense fear/acute discomfort + physical symptoms (heart palpitations, chest pain, shortness of breath, dizziness etc. ) > fear = intense emotional alarm w energy surge in autonomic nervous system (flee) 2 types: expected (cued) panic attack result of gene collection in several areas causing vulnerability w psych/social factors. > depleted levels of gaba; serotonin also involved. > corticotropin releasing factor (crf) system (affects hpa axis) more likely to turn on. > jeffrey gray: behavioural inhibition system (activated by brain stem"s signals) > flight/flight system (ffs) -> panic response (activated partially by serotonin deficiencies) > overly responsive to stimulation/ new info and deficient controlling functions (abnormal bottom up/top down processing) > behaviourists -> product of early classical conditions.
