PSYCH 270 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Social Anxiety Disorder, Locus Coeruleus, Panic Disorder
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6. 1 clinical features of anxiety disorders symptoms interfere w/ important areas of functioning / caused marked distress symptoms not caused by drug or medical condition fears and anxieties distinct from symptoms of another disorder types of anxiety disorders. 6. 2 co-occurrence of anxiety and other disorders and influence of gender and health. Comorbidity: > of people w/ 1 anxiety disorder meet criteria for another anxiety disorder during their life, 60% of people in treatment meet criteria of other mental disorders. Common for gad people to report subthreshold symptoms. Women are 2x likely to be diagnosed w/ anxiety disorder. 6. 3 commonalities in etiology amongst different anxiety disorders. Mowrer"s 2-factor model describes fear-leaerning through cc and oc genes a diathesis for anxiety? neurobiological fear circuit personality: behavioral inhibition causes infants to over-react; neuroticism causes people to react with huge - effect. Behavioral factors: conditioning of specific phobias cognitive factors: too much focus on - self evaluations.
