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Conditions-CH.7
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Amino-butyric acid (GABA) | a constituent of the central nervous system; quantitatively the principal inhibitory neurotransmitter. |
| Anxiety | apprehension of danger, and dread accompanied by restlessness, tension, tachycardia, and dyspnea unattached to a clearly identifiable stimulus. |
| Compulsions | uncontrollable impulses to perform an act (often repetitively) as an unconscious mechanism to avoid unacceptable ideas & desires which, by themselves, arouse anxiety; the anxiety becomes fully manifest if performance of the compulsive act is prevented |
| Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) | chronic, repeated episodes of anxiety or dread accompanied by autonomic changes. |
| Obsessions | a recurrent and persistent idea; thought, or impulse to carry an act that is ego- dystonic, that is experienced as senseless or repugnant, and that the individual cannot voluntarily suppress. |
| Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) | anxiety D/O whose essential feature is recurrent thoughts, impulses, images or compulsions, or impulse to carry out an act that is ego-dystonic |
| Panic attack | sudden onset of intense apprehension, fear, terror or impending doom |
| Panic | extreme and unreasoning anxiety and fear, often accompanied by disturbed breathing, increased heart activity, vasomotor changes, sweating and a feeling of dread. |
| Phobia | any objectively unfounded morbid dread or fear that arouses a state of panic. |
| Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) | development of characteristic symptoms following a psychologically traumatic event that's generally outside the range of usual human experience; SX include numbed responsiveness to enviro stimuli, variety of autonomic & cognitive dysfunctions, & dysphoria |
| social phobia (social anxiety d/o) | persistent pattern of sig. fear of a social or performance situation, manifested by anxiety or panic on exposure to the situation or in anticipation of it, which the person realizes is unreasonable or excessive & interferes sig. w/the person's functioning |
| agoraphobia | mental d/o characterized by an irrational fear of leaving the familiar setting of home, or venturing into open space; often assoc. w/panic attacks; "fear of the marketplace" |
| separation anxiety disorder | excessive anxiety that occurs when a child is separated from home or caregiver |
| five types of phobias | situational, natural environment, blood-injection injury, animal, & other types |
| situational phobia | include fear of tunnels, bridges, using public transportation, flying, & being in closed places |
| natural environment phobia | include fear of natural occurrences such as lightening, thunder, heights, & deep water |
| blood-injection phobia | fear of receiving an injection or TX, which requires some invasive bodily procedure |
| animal phobia | fear of insects and/or animals |
| other type phobia | includes fear of loud sounds, falling, contracting an illness, & choking; fear of costume characters in children is also considered in this category |
| algorithms | single rule or set of rules, are used when solving a problem |
| anxiety disorder | a d/o characterized by extreme apprehension or fear with no known precipitant |
| panic d/o | recurrent episodes of panic attacks |
| attention | the ability to focus on a specific stimulus w/o distraction |
| memory | recalling info after brief or longer periods of time |
| time management | planning & participating in a balance of self-care, work, leisure, & rest activities to promote satisfaction & health |
| self-control | modifying one's own behavior in response to a stimulus |
| emotional functions | response to feelings evoked by a stimulus |
| cognitive therapy | approach to intervention that holds that emotional disturbance is the result of faulty belief systems |
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