Anxiety Flashcards
Why is anxiety and OCD alongside each other?
Even though they aren’t the same, they are close related, such as the behaviours and cognition
How prevalent are anxiety disorders?
Anxiety disorders are in 33.7% of the US population
Oced 2.3%
Higher in women and young people
Starts at 11-13
What are the 3 ways anxiety can go?
Persistent, progressive, or waxing and waving
How prevalent is social anxiety?
 7% of the 33%
What are the most common types of anxiety?
 sexual anxiety and GAD
What is an anxiety, most common morbid with?
Depression
What are the 4 models of anxiety?
- Cognitive
-  behaviour.
- cognitive behaviour
- Biological
What is a cognitive model of anxiety?
Maladaptive, thinking patterns such as fortune or splitting
What are behaviour models of anxiety?
 based on classical conditioning or operating conditioning
What are cognitive behaviour models?
 vicious cycle between thoughts and behaviour
What are biological models of anxiety?
- Activation of fear response in brain, which leads to improper regulation of neuron networks, which gives negative feedback
- Genetics
What is important to know when diagnosing anxiety
 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 
What is the most effective treatment for anxiety?
CBT (I know how it works)
 Exposure therapy 
What is social anxiety?
 extremely high expectations of oneself in a social setting which leads expectations about the setting and misinterpreting those around them, as well as themselves 
What is one of the biggest problems with social anxiety?
 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
What did whst dude zvonchen and Zou blushing study find
 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.
Why do face with social anxiety use self focused attention?
 coping strategy to prevent embarrassment and negative evaluations (Glick)
Control
What are biased interpretations of social situations for social anxiety?
Misinterpreting kind gestures/compliments as negative 
Seeing negatives in regular or good environments and events
Explain safety behaviours
 use self focused attention and can be a vicious circle as others concedes as negative.
- Avoidant strategies
 self protective strategies such as avoiding eye contact and over rehearsal used in uncertain situations
Avoidance behaviours such as avoiding eye contact
- Impression management including self monitoring
Cbt helps
What are the three areas involved in social anxiety?
 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
What are some possibilities of neural circulatory problems in social anxiety
-  Overactive,  amygdala, and medial prefrontal cord Xxx
- First circuit may be permanently switched on so overactive amygdala means prefrontal cortex hijacked
- Multiple neural networks, abnormalities,
-  increased connectivity within a bunch of neural networks, including those for perception, salient (ACC) and uncertainty so more fret is seen
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- Increase inactivity between a Magilla default mode, network, and effective network leads to impaired emotional regulation and sensitivity to anxious experience 
What is the potential treatment for the neuro circuitry treatment of social anxiety?
D-cycloserine amygdala agonist  facilitates learning in rats (Davis)  and fear in this frats are reduced
 basis of exposure therapy
