NURS 327 Chapter Notes - Chapter 23-24: Neuropeptide, Rebound Effect, Conversion Disorder
15 Dec 2020
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Worry: negative thoughts and images, a symptom of fear and anxiety. Anxiety (3 parts: physiological arousal, cognitive process, coping strategies. Ocd check they have not harmed someone or themselves somatic worries hoarding can be religious. Xenophobia: fear of strangers and difficulty escaping: specific social phobia (eating, writing, speaking in public) Genetic aetiology: neural circuits and fear conditioning serotonin receptor influence amygdala and hippocampus (encodes and stores fearful memories) Lck: neuropeptide found in brain also responsible for anxiety and stress. Distraction: having a person perform a repetitive activity. Ocd intervention exposure with response prevention (erp) resisting is less anxious and less time consuming. Factitious disorder: patients stimulates and inflicts injuries on themselves. Illness anxiety disorder: somatic symptom disorder, conversion disorder. 3: psychological factors affecting other medical conditions, factitious disorder, other. Anxiolytics: include alcohol and marijuana, drugs that diminish or reverse anxiety.
