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Anxiety
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When a person is intensely and irrationally afraid of a specific object, activity, or situation.

What is a Phobia? (537)

100
A disorder characterized by unwanted repetitive thoughts, actions, or both.
What is Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)? (539)
100
A disorder characterized by haunting memories, nightmares, social withdrawal, jumpy anxiety, numbness of feelings, and/or insomnia that lingers for four weeks or more after a traumatic experience.
What is Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)? (541)
100

American Sniper was based on the life of __________, who suffered from PTSD.

Who is Chris Kyle?

200
Disorder in which a person experiences sudden episodes of intense dread and fears the next episode's unpredictable onset.
What is Panic Disorder? (537)
200
A mental hiccup of repeating thoughts.
What is Obsession? (543)
200
A quarter million veterans were diagnosed with PTSD after these two wars.
What is the Iraq and Afghanistan War? (540)
200

A phobia that affects women four times more than men.

What is Arachnophobia (the fear of spiders)? (Phobia)

300

Disorder in which a person is unexplainably and continually tense and uneasy.

What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder? (537)

300
A mental hiccup of repeating actions.
What is Compulsions? (543)
300
The odds of getting PTSD after a traumatic event are higher for ___________.
What is a Woman? (540)
300
America's Got Talent judge suffers from OCD.
Who is Howie Mandel?
400
A fear of other people's negative judgments.
What is Social Anxiety Disorder (Social Phobia)? (539)
400

A conditioning process when an behavior creates relief and is repeated to calm anxiety.

What is Reinforcement? (541)

400
Among PTSD patients a history of ___________ leaves long term epigenetic marks that increase vulnerability to a disorder that will be expressed. 
What is Child Abuse? (543)
400

Fear of the number 13 and the bad luck that follows.

What is Triskaidekaphobia? (Phobia)
500
A conditioning process when a person experiences a fearful event and later develops a fear of similar events.
What is Stimulus Generalization? (541)
500
Neuroscientists whose used functional MRI scans to compare the brains of people with OCD and without OCD while engaged in a challenging cognitive task.
Who is Nicholas Maltby and David Tolin? (543)
500

People who have a sensitive ______________ are more vulnerable to PTSD.

What is the Limbic System? (540)
500
These two disorders stem from OCD.
What is trichotillomania and dermatillomania?