Theme 11 by Ryan COPY Flashcards
Low road pathway
AH there this a snake!!
SC-Pulvinar-amygdala-hypothalamus
High Road pathway
Oh it is just a stick……
LGN-V1-corticocortical-amygdala
Kluver Bucy Sydome
Bilateral Temporal damage( amygdala, hippocampus, anterior temporal lobe)
Symptoms
- Docile
- Loss of Fear
- Hypersexaul
- Hypoemotial
- Hyperphagia( always hungry)
- Visual Agnosia
- Memory Impairment
Prefrontal Damage
What was done in transorbital lobotomies
- Emotional disinhibition
- Emotional flattening,increased docility
- decreased goal-oriented behavior
Formation of Fear Center?
Amygdala
Extinction of Fear Center?
VPFC( Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex)
Context of fear Center?
Hippocampus
Criteria Panic disorder
> 1 month
Fear of future panic attacks
or Change in behavior related to attacks
Criteria Agoraphobia
2 or more symptoms
of fear or avoiding crowds, places,
Criteria Generalized Anxiety disorder
> 6 months
uncontrolled anxiety of multiple events
Criteria Selective mutism
person can speak but doesn’t
CANT be with in the first of school
Criteria OCD
Obsessive OR Compulsive behaviors
-Specifier “absent insight” if they don’t think they have a problem
Neuroanatomical Cause of OCD
CSTC(Cortico-striato-thalamo-cortical) circuit overactivity
Serotonin deficiency
Criteria PTSD
Needs to be do to actual threat of death or serious injury and last for greater than a month
1 or more symptoms from each of the 4 categories
- Intrusion
- Avoidance
- Negative Alteration in Cognition and Mood
- Alteration in Arousal and Reactivity
Criteria Acute Stress
3 days to a month of PTSD like symptoms