Anxiety Disorders Flashcards
1
Q
many kinds of anxiety disorders?
A
- Includes generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder, phobias, OCD, PTSD
- Often (erroneously) called the “common cold” of mental illness
- Most common form of mental illness
- Lifetime prevalence of 24%
- Median age of onset is 11 yrs
- Some forms of anxiety are twice as common in women
- can lead to other disorders
2
Q
treatment?
A
- Benzodiazepines- EX: Valium, Xanax
- SSRI’s and SNRI’s
- Cognitive-behavioral/exposure therapy
3
Q
genetic studies?
A
- family & twin studies: show that anxiety is moderately genetically influenced
- Very high rate of co-morbidity between mood and anxiety disorders (50-60%)
4
Q
what is a multivariate design?
A
experiments in which two or more dependent variables are studies (suggests commonalities b/w MDD and GAD)
5
Q
a genetic correlation of 1.0 suggests?
A
that the disorders are the same thing,
genetically
6
Q
what differentiates MDD and GAD?
A
non-shared environmental experiences differentiated the two disorders (to some extent).
7
Q
loss vs. danger hypothesis?
A
- Stressors involving primary feelings of loss might lead to depression (Kessler, 2021)
- Those involving danger and uncertainty might lead to anxiety
- Feelings of loss and danger might lead to both simultaneously
- Many other factors and always involves a diathesis!
