Anxiety Disorders
An anxiety disorder marked by a persistent, irrational fear and avoidance of a specific object, activity or situation
What is a phobia?
A false belief, often of persecution or grandeur.
What is a delusion?
Schizophrenics have excess receptors for this neurotransmitter.
What is dopamine?
A psychological disorder in which the symptoms take on a bodily form without a physical cause.
What is somatic system disorder?
A type of counterconditioning that associates an unpleasant state with an unwanted behavior
What is aversive conditioning?
A disorder characterized by unwanted, repetitive thoughts and or thoughts and actions.
What is obsessive-compulsive disorder
A psychological disorder characterized by delusions and hallucinations.
What is schizophrenia?
A brief electrical charge that travels down an axon.
What is an action potential?
An eating disorder in which a person alternates binge eating with purging by vomiting or laxatives.
What is bulimia nervosa?
Behavioral techniques that treat anxieties by getting people to used to the things they fear and avoid.
What is exposure therapy?
An anxiety disorder in which a person is continually tense, apprehensive and in a state of autonomic nervous system arousal
What is generalized anxiety disorder?
A mood disorder in which a person experiences depressed mood for 2 or more weeks.
What is major depressive disorder?
This is the space between the sending neuron and the receiving neuron.
An eating disorder in which a person maintains a starvation diet despite being significantly (15%) underweight.
What is anorexia nervosa?
Therapy that trains people to counter self-harmful thoughts and act out their new ways of thinking.
What is cognitive-behavioral therapy?
A fear of open spaces.
What is agoraphobia?
Compulsive fretting and overthinking about our problems and their causes.
What is rumination?
Prozac and Zoloft are SSRI's, which keep this neurotransmitter being taken back by the sending neuron.
What is serotonin?
This is a rare disorder in which a person exhibits two or more distinct and alternating personalities.
What is dissociative identity disorder?
Uses learning principles to eliminate unwanted behaviors.
What is behavior therapy?
A disorder characterized by haunting memories, nightmares, social withdrawal that lingers for 4 weeks after a traumatic experience
What is post traumatic stress disorder?
What is bipolar disorder?
Occurs when excess neurotransmitters are reabsorbed by the sending neuron.
A personality disorder in which a person (usually a man) exhibits a lack of conscience for wrongdoing, even toward friends and family members.
What is antisocial personality disorder?
A therapy that teaches people new, more adaptive ways of thinking, based on the assumption that thoughts intervene between events and our emotional reactions.
What is cognitive therapy?