Chapter 5: Panic Disorder

Question 0

Problem with them?

maladaptive solution?

Answer 0

people experience them repeatedly and unexpectedly and without apparent reason
-ppl worry about having another attack and plan behaviour around the possibility of future attacks….to make their environment safe.

Question 1

description?

• extreme what? resulting via?
• periodic short?
• sufferers fear?
• threat?

Answer 1

• an extreme anxiety reaction that can result when a real threat suddenly emerges
• experience of panic attacks is very different than just panic
• periodic short bouts of panic that occur suddenly and reach a peak and pass..
• sufferers often fear they will diem go crazy or lose control
• occurs in the absence of a real threat…shear fear

Question 2

PD is often accompanied via?

Answer 2

agoraphobia

• afraid to leave home and travel to locations from which escape might be difficult or help unavailable
• fear of losing control in open spaces

Question 3

Two diagnoses???

Answer 3

Panic Disorder with and without agoraphobia

Question 4

Percent in pop affected in a given year
percent pop affected at some point in life
onset?
gender

Answer 4

• 2.3
• 3.5
• late adolescence and early adulthood
• women…2:1

Question 5

Bio Perspective PD 
discovery in 1960?
NT?
L> area?
-> Whats wrong?

Answer 5

-BZD’s do not help but antidepressants do
- norepinephrine (irregular in those with PD)
- locus ceruleus
-excess activity, deficient, or some other defect
more than one NT involved

Question 6

monozygotic twins percent
dizygotic twins percent
PD

Answer 6

• 24%

- 11%

Question 7

Cognitive Perspective : PD
theorists rec?
treatment?
-panic prone ppl maybe overly?

Answer 7

• panic attacks are exp by those that misinterpret bodily events..
• geared towards changing misinterpretations
• maybe overly sensitive to certain bodily sensations and may misinterpret then as signs of a medical catastrophe this leads to panic..

Question 8

Cognitive continued …
Panic ppl have a higher degree of?
tend to focus on?
ex: over interpretations

Answer 8

• anxiety sensitivity
• bodily functions most of the time…unable to assess the sensations logically and interpret them as potentially harmful
• over breathing , hyperventilation, excitement, fullness in the abdomen,acute anger and heart palpitations