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Anxiety Disorders (ch.18.3) Flashcards

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Bipolar Depression:

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-Characterized by periods of depression alternating with mania

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Mania:

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-Overconfidence, impulsitivity, high energy. This unorganized behaviour makes it difficulties to complete projects and meet responsibilities

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Rapid Cycling:

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  • (Some bipolar patients experience this)
  • four or more cycles of mania and depression within a year, these can be much more frequent including multiple cycles a day
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Cylothymia:

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Cycling between dysthymia (mild depression) and hypomania (mild mania)

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Bipolar Depression average age:

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Average age of onset is earlier than unipolar depression

  • First episode commonly between 15- 30 y with an average of 25 year
  • Age of onset IS tied to genetics
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Bipolar Depressions (are men or women more effected)

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Men and women are equally effected

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One gene with Bipolar Depression is isolated as a contributing factor that encodes for…

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BDNF ( a neurotrophic factor)

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Brain changes that are associated with bipolar depression:

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  • Enlarged ventricles
  • Reduced Grey Matter -> this correlated with the number of episodes (the number of episodes the greater the loss of neurons)
  • Suggests an accumulation of damage over time
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What is a problem with using antidepressants in the treatment of Bipolar Depression?

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  • The depression is oftener educed but mania is triggered
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Typical Antipsychotics (for bipolar disorder)

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  • Would seem an attractive treatment for mania but generally they are not very effective
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Mood Stabilizers:

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Mechanisms of actions not completely understood

  • Used primarily to combat symptoms of mania but not all symptoms of BP
  • side effects: increase in weight, dizziness, lethargy, vision problems
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Most commonly used medication for bipolar disorder:

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Lithium

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Problem with Mania and taking medication:

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Mania can feel “pleasant” in comparison to feeling medicated or depressed therefor there are issues with compliance

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Anxiety Disorders:

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Characterized by chronic fear in the absence of threat

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Psychological symptoms of anxiety:

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fear and worrying

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Physiological symptoms:

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  • autonomic activation - tachycardia (abnormal heart rate)
  • hypertension
  • nausea
  • breathing difficulties
  • sleep disturbances
  • high glucocorticoid levels
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__% of the population will suffer form an anxiety disorder at some point

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  • 17%

- Twice as common in females

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Anxiety Disorders and Major Depressive Disorder (Corse system differences)

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Anxiety: Characterized by anxiety and worry and disorder dependent symptoms (ex phobia)
Depression: Decreased mood and interest in pleasure

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Symptoms that overlap between anxiety and depression disorders

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Fatigue, concentration, sleep

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How are anxiety disorders triggered?

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  • By stressful events, the role of experience in shaping the disorder is often observable
  • Heritability 30-40%
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5 major anxiety disorders:

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  • Generalized Anxiety Disorder
  • Phobic Anxiety Disorders
  • Panic Disorders
  • Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
  • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
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Generalized Anxiety Disorder:

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Exceissive worrying that interferes with day to day life

- Increased arousal, fatigue, concentration problems, sleep problems, irritability, muscle tension

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Phobic Anxiety Disorders:

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Intense fear that becomes centred on a specific object situation or person

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Panic Disorders:

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Recurring attacks of fearfulness (panic attacks)

  • Unexpected panic attacks and subsequent avoidance behaviours
  • fear anxiety about social performance
    • worry about exposure to social situations (leads to panic attacks and phobic avoidance/social isolation
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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder:

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Obsessions (thoughts_ compulsions (repetitive behaviours) or both

  • Compulsions -> Behaviors that are repeated
  • Obsessions -> reoccurring thoughts (thinking about the behaviour)
  • 4 mil people in the US suffer from OCD
  • average age of onset - 25 to 44 years of age
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Post Traumatic Stress Disorder:

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Triggered by traumatic event, includes severe anxiety, flashbacks and fear (e.g: observing or experiencing violence or death)

  • Memories of events intrude consciousness and elicit strong emotional and peripheral responses such as immense fear, trembling, erratic behaviour.
  • Very common in veterans
  • genetics account for 1/3rd of incidences
  • Size of hippocampus may increase risks (smaller)
  • have deficit in the ability to forget
  • involved MGN, amygdala, hippocampus, and brainstem
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(Generalized Anxiety Disorder) Amygdala centered circuit:

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FEAR

  • Feelings of fear
  • Avoidancee Behavior
  • Endocrine Output (hormones)
  • Respirator Output
  • Sympathetic tone
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(Generalized Anxiety Disorder) Cortico striatal thalamic loops:

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WORRY

- Anterior cingulate cortex to nucleus accumbens to thalamus and back to the anterior cingulate

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2 Categories for phobic anxiety disorders:

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  1. Specific phobias: fear of particular objects or situations ( 5 subtypes) - animal, environment, situation blood injection or other
  2. Agoraphobia: fear of leaving home or a ‘safe are’
    - Exposure may elicit broad range of responses to mildly increased arousal to panic attacks
    - Could result from a conditioned response that is strengthened with each exposure
    - Brain regions of interest (amygdala, insula, limbic system)
  • DISORDERS (Suriphobia (rats), aquaphobia (water), acrophobia (heights), hemophobia (blood), claustrophobia (small spaces))
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Panic Disorders - Brain changes

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  • Patients with reoccurring panic attacks present with ABNORMAL MRI of the temporal lobe
  • ~40% of panic patients show small lesions in white matter in the temporal lobe and larger lateral ventricles
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What does OCD respond well to?

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SSRI

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Increasingly fMRI suggest what with OCD?

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SSRI target the orbitofrontal cortex in OCD, SSRI target ventrolateral prefrontal cortex in depression
- Depression often accompanies OCD

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Anxiety Disorders Medications: B

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Benzodiazepines: GABAa receptor agonists - GABA in the presence of Benzodiapzepines increase CL influx - neural inhibition

  • At high doses benzodiazepines function as anticonvulsants and sedatives
  • Side effects: sedation, nausea, tremor
  • Stopping treatment - rebound anxiety
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Anxiety Disorders: S

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  • Seroteonergic Agonsit: Buspirone 5HTIA agonist prescribed for GAD
  • Produces anxiolytic response without the side effects of Benzodiazepines
  • Common Side effects: nausea, headache, insomnia
  • Of interest: Imaging studies show decreased levels of 5HTIA receptors in anxiety patients
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Anxiety Disorders Medication: A

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Antidepressants: SSRI and SNRI are effective at treating anxiety disorders

  • Depression and Anxiety are comorbid - patients with uni or bipolar depression are 50% more likely to have had an anxiety disorder
  • Interestingly antidepressants can increase levels of BDNF the gene that codes for this protein is reduced in patients with anxiety

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