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Neuroscience Week 8: Anxiety disorders Flashcards

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Anxiety objectives

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What is anxiety?

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Normal vs Pathological Anxiety

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Why is Anxiety important?

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Helpful vs crippling anxiety

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DSM 5 Anxiety Disorders

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Anxiety Disorders: Onset

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usually, begin in childhood (phobias) or adolescence

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Anxiety Disorders: risk factors

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  • more common in females (generally)
  • Rates higher with lower SES and education
  • Genetics - Serotonin transporter gene?
  • Temperament & personality: behavioral inhibition & anxiety sensitivity/resiliency
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Anxiety Development

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Neurobiology of Anxiety

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Epidemiology of Anxiety

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Stressor definition

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Adjustment disorders - anxious, depressed or conduct

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where it doesn’t meet the criteria of anxiety disorders, depressive disorders or conduct disorders

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Trauma definition and types

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Anxiety Precipitants

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most common anxiety disorder

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simple phobia

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Types of anxiety

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  • generalized worries
  • Panic
  • Obsessional
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Anxiety: Common Reactions

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Specific phobia definition

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Marked fear or anxiety about object/situation

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Common specific phobias

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  • flying
  • enclosed spaces
  • heights
  • storms
  • animals
  • injection
  • blood
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Specific phobia provokes? and criteria

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  • immediate anxiety or fear
  • avoid at all costs
  • 6 months or more/happens each time/out of proportion to actual threat
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Panic Disorder description

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  • Recurrent & unexpected panic attacks with 4 of the following symptoms
  • and 1 or both of worrying about more attacks or their consequences AND/OR change in behavior due to attacks
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Generalized anxiety disorder description

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  • excessive worry/anxiety about events/activities for more than 6 months
  • cannot control worry
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Generalized anxiety disorder criteria

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worry associated with at least 3:

  • Restlessness/keyed up/on edge
  • Easily fatigued
  • Concentration problems
  • Irritability
  • Muscle tension
  • Sleep disturbance
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Social Anxiety description

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Marked fear or anxiety of 1 or more social/performance situations exposed to scrutiny by others

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Social Anxiety common stressors

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  • public speaking
  • eating
  • drinking
  • initiating/maintaining conversations
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Social Anxiety presentation

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  • Fears humiliation by manifesting anxiety - such as blushing/sweating/shaking
  • Avoid these situations or endured with significant anxiety
  • 6 months or more/happens each time/out of proportion to actual threat
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Obsessive-compulsive disorder description

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presence of obsessions, compulsions or both

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Obsessions definition

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recurrent & persistent thoughts/images/urges which are intrusive and cause anxiety or stress

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Common obsessions

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  • contamination
  • pathological doubt
  • impulses
  • sexual images
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Compulsions definition

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repetitive behaviors or mental acts person feels driven to perform and with goal of decreasing anxiety/distress or preventing dreaded event or situation

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Common compulsions

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  • washing
  • ordering
  • checking
  • praying
  • counting
  • repeating words
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Obsessive-compulsive disorder pathology

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time consuming or causes distress or dysfunction

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Posttraumatic Stress Disorder description

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  • typically caused by trauma
  • and intrusion of memories, thoughts, dreams, dissociation, distress, marked physical reactions
  • avoidance
  • negative/flattened alterations in cognition and mood
  • Arousal:” hypervigilance, reckless, irritable, decreased sleep, anger, concentration, increased startle
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Posttraumatic Stress Disorder criteria

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  • must last greater than 1 month
  • Intrusion: flashback, thoughts, dreams etc
  • Avoidance
  • Negative/flattened alterations in cognitions and mood
  • Arousal
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Pharmacology of Anxiety

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SSRIs anxiety treatment considerations

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  • Start LOW, go SLOW, aim HIGH
  • SSRIs cause anxiety transiently at the initiation of treatment
  • Consider Benzo BRIDGE
  • Aim very high in dosage range to treat OCD or Panic Disorder
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Benzo BRIDGE

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using benzodiazepines in the initiation phase to ease the frequency and intensity of symptoms and to avoid initial side effects

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SNRIs in the treatment of Anxiety

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Anxiety SNRI treatment mechanism

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NE is an important input and output neurotransmitter of the amygdala

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Excessive NE output from the Amygdala can result in?

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  • Nightmares
  • hyperarousal states
  • flashbacks
  • panic attacks
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Activity of SNRIs can be decreased by?

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centrally acting Beta-blockers (propranolol or alpha-blockers (Prazosin)

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Prazosin use for anxiety

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nightmares in PTSD

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SNRIs, TCADs and MAOIs may desensitize

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Postsynaptic α and β receptors over time

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GABA anxiety treatment

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  • key neurotransmitter implicated in anxiety disorders
  • reduces amygdala activity
  • Drugs which bind GABA receptor are anxiolytic

(benzodiazepines/alcohol)

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Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy treatment for anxiety

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  • most evidence-based therapy
  • Focuses on exposure and response prevention
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Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy treatment for anxiety Types

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  • Flooding (rapid exposure)
  • Systematic desensitization
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CBT panic disorder

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B. chronic worry

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