Anxiety

Question 1

Why is anxiety and OCD alongside each other?

Answer 1

Even though they aren’t the same, they are close related, such as the behaviours and cognition

Question 2

How prevalent are anxiety disorders?

Answer 2

Anxiety disorders are in 33.7% of the US population

Oced 2.3%

Higher in women and young people

Starts at 11-13

Question 3

What are the 3 ways anxiety can go?

Answer 3

Persistent, progressive, or waxing and waving

Question 4

How prevalent is social anxiety?

Answer 4

 7% of the 33%

Question 5

What are the most common types of anxiety?

Answer 5

 sexual anxiety and GAD

Question 6

What is an anxiety, most common morbid with?

Answer 6

Depression

Question 7

What are the 4 models of anxiety?

Answer 7

1. Cognitive
2.  behaviour.
3. cognitive behaviour
4. Biological

Question 8

What is a cognitive model of anxiety?

Answer 8

Maladaptive, thinking patterns such as fortune or splitting

Question 9

What are behaviour models of anxiety?

Answer 9

 based on classical conditioning or operating conditioning

Question 10

What are cognitive behaviour models?

Answer 10

 vicious cycle between thoughts and behaviour

Question 11

What are biological models of anxiety?

Answer 11

1. Activation of fear response in brain, which leads to improper regulation of neuron networks, which gives negative feedback
2. Genetics

Question 12

What is important to know when diagnosing anxiety

Answer 12

 it can’t be comorbid with other disorders or caused by drugs

The self report measure is completed and validated against clinical groups  
Behaviour assessments can also check for avoidance and physiological assessments can check for physical changes such as racing heartbeat 

Question 13

What is the most effective treatment for anxiety?

Answer 13

CBT (I know how it works)

 Exposure therapy 

Question 14

What is social anxiety?

Answer 14

 extremely high expectations of oneself in a social setting which leads expectations about the setting and misinterpreting those around them, as well as themselves 

Question 15

What is one of the biggest problems with social anxiety?

Answer 15

 self focused detention, so those suffering pay close attention to what they are doing and don’t look at the external enough. Which makes them look more standoffish and feeds the vicious cycle

Question 16

What did whst dude zvonchen and Zou blushing study find

Answer 16

 when participants were told they were blushing. They were actually more likely to focus on their own physiological symptoms because they were hyper aware of themselves.

Question 17

Why do face with social anxiety use self focused attention?

Answer 17

 coping strategy to prevent embarrassment and negative evaluations (Glick)

Control

Question 18

What are biased interpretations of social situations for social anxiety?

Answer 18

Misinterpreting kind gestures/compliments as negative 

Seeing negatives in regular or good environments and events

Question 19

Explain safety behaviours

Answer 19

 use self focused attention and can be a vicious circle as others concedes as negative.

1. Avoidant strategies
    self protective strategies such as avoiding eye contact and over rehearsal used in uncertain situations

Avoidance behaviours such as avoiding eye contact

2. Impression management including self monitoring

Cbt helps

Question 20

What are the three areas involved in social anxiety?

Answer 20

 prefrontal  cortex involved in planning

 prefrontal and anterior circular, cortex, amplifies negative information in your surroundings, makes you pay attention

Amygdala, which is emotional memories

Question 21

What are some possibilities of neural circulatory problems in social anxiety

Answer 21

1.  Overactive,  amygdala, and medial prefrontal cord Xxx
2. First circuit may be permanently switched on so overactive amygdala means prefrontal cortex hijacked
3. Multiple neural networks, abnormalities,
4.  increased connectivity within a bunch of neural networks, including those for perception, salient (ACC) and uncertainty so more fret is seen
5. 
6. Increase inactivity between a Magilla default mode, network, and effective network leads to impaired emotional regulation and sensitivity to anxious experience 

Question 22

What is the potential treatment for the neuro circuitry treatment of social anxiety?

Answer 22

D-cycloserine amygdala agonist  facilitates learning in rats (Davis)  and fear in this frats are reduced

 basis of exposure therapy