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| Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder |
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- Symptoms: inattention, hyperactivity, impulsivity
- Affects 3 - 7% of school aged children
- No clear genetic connection
- Problem: reduced activity in the dopaminergic branch of limbic system
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- Symptoms: Abnormal development of social interaction and communication
- must appear before age 3
- failure to use non-verbal behaviours
- stereotyped movement
- postural abnormalities
- 4x more likely in males
- Dramatic increase in diagnosis
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- anxiety, somatoform, and dissociative disorders
- do not suffer from delusions or severely disordered thought processes
- realize they have a problem
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- sense of apprehensions that is accompanied by many physiological reactions
- accelerated heart rate
- sweaty palms
- tightness in stomach
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| Panic Disorder: Description |
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Definition
- panic = a feeling of extreme fear mixed with hopelessness or helplessness
- suffer from episodic attacks of acute anxiety
- last from few seconds to few hours
- women 2x more likely
- anticipatory anxiety - a fear of having a panic attack
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| Panic Disorder: Possible Causes |
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Definition
- Biological
- substantial hereditary component
- show physiological response patterns
- can be triggered by injections of lactic acid or elevated amount of CO2
- Environmental
- amounts of stress and how they have learned to cope
- Cognitive
- focus on expectancies
- expectation of of stressors can even cause panic attack
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| Phobic Disorder: Description |
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Definition
- an unrealistic, excessive fear of a specific class of stimuli that interferes with normal activities
- agoraphobia
- associated with panic attacks
- fear of being in situations in which escape is difficult
- stayed inside of homes for years
- begins to develop: mid/late 20s
- social phobia
- excessive or irrational fear of situations in which the person is observed by others
- begins to develop in late teen
- specific phobia
- often caused by a specific traumatic experience
- 15% of population
- enduring if developed after adolescence, but do so before 30
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| Phobic Disorder: Possible Causes |
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Definition
- Environmental
- Direct or vicarious classical conditioning
- Affected by cognition as well
- Genetic
- Evolved fear of dangerous stimuli
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| Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: Discriptions |
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Definition
- Major classes: impaired control of mental activities, checking, urges involving loss of motor control,feeling contaminated
- Classes of obsession
- Doubt or uncertainty
- Fear of doing something prohibited
- Classes of compulsions
- checking, cleaning, avoidance
- Recognize senselessness of it
- Begins to develop: Young adulthood
- Slightly more common in females
- Defence to anxiety
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