PSYB32H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Test Anxiety
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It can also be link to depression and anxiety in parents and peer victimization: social phobia continues to happen through their life. There are causes of phobia made by psychoanalytic, behavioural, cognitive and biological paradigms. Cognitive t heories: cognitive focuses on how our thought processing can cause stress and that it can cause our phobia and anxiety. It can be linked to those that have physical conditions such as asthma: therefore, comorbidity in panic disorder can increase severity and bad outcomes. In this theory, it focuses on a nucleus in the pons of the brainstem called the locus ceruleus the major noradrenergic nucleus of the brain that is the main source of noradrenaline in the forebrain. It has shown on monkeys that locus ceruleus is the cause of panic attacks: this shows that natural attacks involve with noradrenergic over activation or overly used and stimulated.
