Overview
This is the reaction that occurs when confronted with an actual threat.
What is fear?
These are the most common type of mental health disorders in children and adolescents.
What are anxiety disorders?
These are typical physiologic responses to anxiety.
What are elevated heart rate, hyperventilation, sweating, flushing, and nausea?
Dysfunction in this brain structure is believed to contribute to inappropriate threat perception and emotional dysregulation in anxiety disorders.
What is the amygdala?
This is the emotional, cognitive, and physiologic reaction related to a real or imagined threat that may occur in the future.
What is anxiety?
This is the most common anxiety disorder in children and adolescents.
What is specific phobia?
This is the estimated lifetime prevalence of an anxiety disorder in the United States
What is 25% (vs 11-15% worldwide)?
Anxiety-prone individuals demonstrated ___ of the insula when presented with pictures of snakes and spiders.
What is hyperactivity?
When anxiety or fear help keep us safe or motivate us for the future, they are thought of as this.
What is adaptive?
Although there is limited data, the age of onset for this anxiety disorder is usually before 5 years.
These are examples of developmentally appropriate anxieties (give 2).
What are separation anxiety in 8m-2y, fear of the dark and monsters in preschoolers, fear of storms in elementary aged children (will accept others).
In the "tripartite" view of anxiety, there are behavioral, cognitive, and physiologic responses to anxiety. This is the most common "behavioral" response.
What is avoidance?
These two parental factors were associated with decreased prevalence in anxiety disorders in adolescents.
What are intact marriage and college graduates?
This was considered an anxiety disorder in the DSM-IV, but was recategorized as a somatoform disorder in the DSM-V
What is illness anxiety disorder (hypochondriasis)?
This brain region is believed to be associated with attentional bias towards threats (difficulty moving attention away from threatening stimuli).
These are the seven disorders included in the DSM-5 category of anxiety disorders.
What are specific phobia, social anxiety disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, selective mutism, separation anxiety disorder, agoraphobia, and panic disorder?
According to the National Comorbidity Survey-Replication (NCSR), these 4 anxiety disorders are the most common to occur before adulthood.
What are social anxiety disorder, specific phobia, separation anxiety disorder, and selective mutism?
This is the anxiety disorder most frequently comorbid with other anxiety disorders.
What is generalized anxiety disorder (66% lifetime comorbidity)?