Anxiety Disorders: For A Penny People Can Make It Snow Chocolate - Answers Fatigue, Arousal, Panic
attacks, Phobic avoidance, Compulsions, Muscle tension, Irritability, Sleep, Concentration
Characteristics of Fear: Quit It Before Adam Urinates - Answers Quick onset, Involuntary onset, Brief
duration, Autonomic arousal, Universal events
Worry is a sustained emotional response to ___________ _____________, i.e. future-oriented
emotional state, "What if..." - Answers unpredictable threats
Both fear and anxiety are adaptive emotional responses to stress and are experienced by all humans to
varying degrees.
In anxiety disorders, these responses become ___________, ___________, and ____________. -
Answers aberrant, excessive, and maladaptive.
Anxious __________ __________ causes the person to exert overly conservative preparatory behavior
in the face of an unpredictable threat; very _________, but _________. - Answers Judgement bias; very
effective, bu inefficient.
Anxiety disorders are characterized by excessive and aberrant __________ _________ under conditions
of (threat) _________. - Answers anticipatory responding...uncertainty.
Anxiety disorders are a __________ __________; inability to learn about safety, lack of transfer from
previous safety/success to future thoughts. - Answers cognitive deficit
Fear (panic, phobia) = ___________ circuit.
Worry (anxious misery, apprehensive expectation, obsession) = ____________ circuit. - Answers Fear =
Amygdala-centered circuit
Worry = CSTC-Loops circuit
CSTC Loops: Biology behind worrying
PFC: generates _________ and _________, sends this to the STR...
, STR: facilitates the _________ and inhibits the _________, sends this modified version to the THAL...
THAL: continues to receive _________ __________ and also input from the cortex, so stays
___________ ___________ - Answers PFC: generates plan and response
STR: facilitates the wanted and inhibits the unwanted
THAL: continues to receive sensory input....stays continuously updated...
Affect of Fear
-Reciprocal connections between the amygdala and the __________ and ___________. - Answers
Amygdala and the ACC and OFC.
Avoidance = Fight or Flight Response
-Reciprocal connections between the amygdala and the __________; which when stimulated, individual
will tend to _________ a situation. - Answers Periaqueductal Grey (PAG); when stimulated, you avoid...
Endocrine Output
-Reciprocal connections between the amygdala and the __________.
-Overactivation from the amygdala ultimately causes _________ _________ levels.
-Prolonged activation and ________ release can have significant health implications, such as increased
risk of _______ ______ ______, _______ ________ _______, and _________. - Answers HPA Axis
increased cortisol