PSYCH 3830 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Separation Anxiety Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Panic Attack
3 Feb 2017
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Anxiety: mood state characterized by marked negative affect and bodily symptoms of tension in which a person apprehensively anticipates future danger or misfortune. Anxiety may involve feelings, behaviors, and physiological responses. Fear: emotion of an immediate alarm reaction to present danger or life-threatening emergencies. Panic attack: abrupt experience of intense fear or discomfort accompanied by a number of physical symptoms, such as dizziness or heart palpitations. Behavioral inhibition system (bis): brain circuit in the limbic system that responds to threat signals by inhibiting activity and causing anxiety. Fight/flight system (ffs): brain circuit in animals that when stimulated causes an immediate alarm and escape response resembling human panic. Generalized anxiety disorder (gad): anxiety disorder characterized by intense, uncontrollable, unfocused, chronic, and continuous worry that is distressing and unproductive, accompanied by physical symptoms of tenseness, irritability, and restlessness. Panic disorder (pd): recurrent unexpected panic attack accompanied by concern about future attacks and/or a lifestyle change to avoid future attacks.
