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psychological disorder

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  • a set of behavioral and/or psychological symptoms that are not in keeping with cultural norms, and that are severe enough to cause significant personal distress and/or significant impairment to social, occupational, or personal functioning
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factors originating mental illness

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  • biological
  • psychological
  • sociocultural
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neurodevelopmental disorders

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  • manifest early in development usually before grade school
  • appear as deficits
  • generally difficult to treat
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characteristics of neurodevelopmental disorders

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  • intellectual disability

- communication disorders

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neurodevelopmental disorders diagnoses

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  • autism spectrum disorder

- ADHD

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ADD/ADHD

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  • unknown causes
  • 2-4% of school-aged children
  • motor restlessness, difficulty paying attention, distractibility, impulsivity
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Common signs of autism

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  • impaired social interaction
  • repetitive movements
  • inability to play interactively with other children
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neurocognitive disorders

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  • cognition centrally affected
  • specific of general cognitive decline
  • deficits in cognitive function range from major to mild
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characteristics of cognitive disorders

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  • cognitive decline from a previous level of performance in one or more cognitive domains such as complex attention, executive function, learning, memory, language, perceptual-motor, or social cognition
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diagnoses of cognitive disorders

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  • Delirium
  • Alzheimer’s
  • Parkinson’s
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Alzheimer’s

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  • amyloid plaques: clumps of protein fragments that accumulate outside of cells
  • Neurofibrillary tangles : clumps of altered proteins inside cells
  • destruction and death of nerve cells causes memory failure, personality changes, problems carrying out daily activities
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Parkinson’s disease

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  • primarily caused by low dopamine levels
  • dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra of the basal ganglia die off
  • Lewy bodies (abnormal aggregates of protein) develop inside neurons
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sleep-wake disorders

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  • disturbance in quality, timing, and/or amount of sleep
  • may involve breathing patterns or nightmares
  • dysomnias
  • parasomnias
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dysomnias

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  • abnormalities in the amount, quality, or timing of sleep
  • insomnia
  • narcolepsy
  • sleep apnea
  • DIFFICULTY FALLING ASLEEP
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insomnia

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  • inability to fall or remain asleep

- most commonly reported sleep problem

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narcolepsy

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  • periodic, overwhelming sleepiness during waking periods
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sleep apnea

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  • intermittent cessation of breathing during sleep, which results in repeated awakenings
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parasomnias

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  • abnormal behaviors that occur during sleep
  • somnambulism
  • night terrors
  • PROBLEMS WHILE ASLEEP
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somnambulism

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  • sleep walking
  • during stage 3 of sleep (slow wave)
  • first third of the night during deep sleep
  • many children experience then grow out of it
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night terrors

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  • appearing terrified, babbling, screaming while deep asleep

- during stage 3 of sleep earlier during the night

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nightmares

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  • occur during REM sleep toward morning
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anxiety disorders

types

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  • excessive fear and/or anxiety
  • avoidance behaviors
  • phobias
  • social anxiety disorder
  • panic disorder
  • generalized anxiety disorder
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phobias

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  • a very specific fear/anxiety

- situational, natural environment, blood/injection/injury, animals

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social anxiety disorder

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  • fear/anxiety around social situations
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panic disorder

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  • includes panic attacks

- excessive anxiety/worry about next attack

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generalized anxiety disorder

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  • excessive anxiety without a specific cause
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depressive disorders

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  • sad, empty, and/or irritable mood
  • not related to normal grief
  • major depressive disorder
  • persistent depressive disorder
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monoamine hypothesis of depression

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  • depletion in the levels of serotonin, norepinephrine, and/or dopamine in the CNS
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bipolar disorders

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  • bridge between psychotic and depressive disorders
  • involve episodes and cycles
  • bipolar I (manic-depressive)
  • bipolar II - upward swings in mood that can approach mania
    • severity determines which is which
  • cyclothymic
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schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders

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  • delusions, hallucinations, and/or disorganized speech
  • may involve negative symptoms
  • delusional disorder
  • brief psychotic disorder
  • schizophrenia disorder
  • schizophrenia
  • schizoaffective disorder
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positive symptoms

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  • psychotic symptoms not normally seen in healthy people

- hallucinations, delusions, disorganized speech

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negative symptoms

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  • disruptions to normal emotions and behaviors

- loss of motivation (avolition), flattened affect, reduced speech

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cognitive symptoms

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  • thought patterns that make it hard to lead a normal life and earn a living
  • poor executive functioning, trouble focusing or paying attention, problems with working memory
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trauma and stressor-related disorders

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  • exposure to traumatic or stressful event
  • exhibit any of a wide range of symptoms
  • PTSD
  • acute stress disorder
  • adjustment disorders
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substance-related and addictive disorders

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  • drugs separated into 10 classes
  • involves brain’s reward system
  • tolerance and withdrawal
  • substance use disorders
  • alcohol-related disorders
  • caffeine, cannabis, hallucinogen, disorders
  • gambling disorder
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personality disorders

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  • enduring pattern of socially deviant feelings and behaviors
  • pattern is inflexible and occurs across a range of settings and relationships
  • begins in adolescence or early adulthood
  • not diagnosed in children
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Cluster A personality disorders

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  • odd/eccentric

- paranoid, schizoid, and schizotypal personality disorders

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Cluster B personality disorders

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  • dramatic/erratic
  • antisocial (men), borderline, histrionic, and narcisstic (women)
  • most resistant to therapy
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cluster C personality disorders

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  • anxious/fearful

- avoidant, dependent, and obsessive-compulsive personality disorder

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disruptive, impulse-control, and conduct-disorders

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  • problems in self control of emotions
  • behaviors violate the rights of others and/or cause legal trouble
  • oppositional defiant disorder
  • intermittent explosive disorder
  • conduct disorder
  • pyromania
  • kleptomania
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obsessive-compulsive disorders

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  • obsessions (thoughts or urges)
  • compulsions (repetitive behaviors)
  • OCD
  • body dysmorphic disorder
  • hoarding disorder
  • trichotillomania
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somatic symptom disorders

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  • excessive and/or medically unexplainable symptoms
  • commonly encountered in primary care
  • somatic symptom disorder
  • illness anxiety disorder
  • conversion disorder
  • factitious disorder
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feeding and eating disorders

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  • disturbed eating behavior
  • consumption and/or absorption of food may be affected
  • pica
  • anorexia nervosa
  • bulemia nervosa
  • binge-eating disorder
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dissociative disorders

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  • disruptions and/or discontinuities
  • abnormal integration of consciousness, identity, emotion, etc
  • dissociative identity disorder
  • dissociative amnesia
  • depersonalization/derealization disorder
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prevalence of most common psychological disorders

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  • anxiety (20%)
  • dissociative (10%)
  • depressive (10%)
  • personality (6%)
  • eating (6%)
  • somatic symptom (3%)
  • psychotic (2)
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assumed problems in psychoanalytic therapy

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  • unconscious forces and childhood experiences
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therapy goals in psychoanalytic therapy

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  • reduce anxiety through insight
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methods in psychoanalytic therapy

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  • analysis and interpretation of dreams

- talk therapy

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assumed problems in humanistic therapy

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  • barriers to self understanding and self-acceptance

- person-centered

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therapy goals in humanistic therapy

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  • personal growth through self insight
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methods of humanistic therapy

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  • active listening
  • unconditional positive regard
  • trust in client, congruence, empathy
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assumed problem in behavioral therapy

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  • learned, maladaptive behaviors
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therapy goals in behavioral therapy

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  • extinguish maladaptive behaviors and learn adaptive behaviors through conditioning
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methods of behavioral therapy

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  • systematic desensitization
  • flooding
  • aversion therapy
  • relaxation
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assumed problem in cognitive behavioral therapy

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  • maladaptive behaviors and/or self defeating thoughts
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therapy goals in cognitive behavioral therapy

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  • extinction of undesired thoughts/behaviors, learning adaptive thoughts/behaviors, healthier thinking, and self-talk
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methods in cognitive behavioral therapy

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  • reconditioning
  • desensitization
  • reversal
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consciousness

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  • the awareness that we have of ourselves, our internal states, and the environment
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reticular activating system

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  • controls alertness and arousal

- regulate activity via the thalamus

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circadian rhythms

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  • control the increases and decreases in our alertness in predictable ways over a 24-hour cycle
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physiological indicators of a mammal’s circadian rhythm

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  • controlled by melatonin released by the pineal gland,
  • body temperature
  • serum cortisol levels
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what regulates sleep

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  • light exposure

- suprachiasmatic nucleus of the hypothamalus

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what produces cortisol?

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  • adrenal cortex
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stage 1 sleep

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  • theta waves
  • hypnic jerk
  • slow rolling eye movemments
  • moderate muscle activity
  • fleeting thoughts, non-REM sleep
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stage 2 sleep

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  • sleep spindle
  • K complex
  • no eye movement
  • moderate muscle activity
  • increased relaxation, decreased temp, HR, and respiration
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stages 3 and 4 sleep

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  • delta waves - low freq. high amp
  • no eye movement
  • moderate muscle activity
  • heart and digestion slowed, growth hormone secreted, deepest level of sleep, physiological repair
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REM sleep

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  • similar to beta waves but more jagged (person appears to be awake)
  • bursts of quick eye movement
  • no muscle activity
  • when dreams occurs
  • 25%. Back loaded during the night
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waves when awake

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  • beta
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waves when drowsy

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  • alpha
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deep sleep

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  • front loaded during the night
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psychological dependence

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  • a drug becomes central to a person’s thoughts, emotions, and activities.
  • any drug and non-drugs can lead to psychological dependence
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physical dependence

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  • presence of withdrawal symptoms

- the person depends on the drug to avoid these symptoms

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addiction

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  • compulsive drug use despite harmful consequences

- inability to stop using a drug

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nucleus accubens

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  • pleasure center of the brain

- dopamine release

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many active drugs stimulate

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  • dopamine release
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tolerance

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  • an individual must use more of a drug to get the desired effect
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dependence

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  • repeated use of drug

- a person needing to use a drug to function normally

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withdrawal

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  • symptoms that occur when a person who has formed a dependence to a drug suddenly discontinues or decreases use of that drug
  • drug specific and dose tolerant
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depressants

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  • alcohol
  • barbiturates
  • opiates
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depressants mechanism of action

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  • depresses CNS
  • especially fight or flight
  • upregulation of GABA
  • inhibition of glutamate
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depressants effects

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  • impaired motor control
  • eventual addiction
  • inhibit respiratory centers in brainstem
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stimulants

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  • caffeine
  • nicotine
  • amphetamines
  • cocaine
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stimulants mechanism of action

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  • increases release of neurotransmitters
  • inhibits reuptake of neurotransmitters
  • increase NE or dopamine
  • act as an ACh agonist
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stimulants effects

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  • sped up bodily functions

- rush followed by crash

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hallucinogens

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  • LSD

- marijuana (THC)

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hallucinogen mechanism of action

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  • distorts perceptions in the absence of sensory input
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hallucinogen effects

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  • hallucinations
  • impaired judgment
  • slowed reaction time
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stress

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  • anything that poses a threat or challenge to our physical or mental well-being
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primary response for cognitive appraisal of stress

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  • initial evaluation

- focus directly on present threat

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secondary response for cognitive appraisal of stress

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  • evaluation of our ability to cope with this stressor

- damage caused and how to deal with situation

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catastrophes

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  • unpredictable, large scale events that include natural disasters and wartime events and affect many people
  • MUST IMPACT LOTS OF PEOPLE
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significant life changes

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  • personal events or occurrences that have a major impact on our lives
  • positive (marriage, birth)
  • negative (divorce, death)
  • focus on families
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daily hassles

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  • everyday irritations of life
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ambient stressors

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  • part of our environment
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physiological response to acute stress

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  • fight or flight responses
  • sleep disturbances
  • adaptive/evolutionary
  • system in place to return to homeostasis
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physiological response to chronic stress

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  • cortisol
  • immunosuppresion
  • chronic high blood pressure
  • inhibition of growth
  • mental health issues
  • damage to muscle tissues
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General Adaptation Syndrome

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  • Selye

- alarm -> resistance -> exhaustion -> physical illness

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appraisal

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  • how a stress is interpreted by the individual

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