Johannes Oster 10/28/12 Community Health I Essay I Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in the United States: Predictors‚ Diagnosis‚ and Treatment Posttraumatic Stress Disorder‚ or PTSD‚ is an anxiety disorder that occurs in individuals exposed to traumatic events. Traumatic events are defined as ones involving death‚ serious injury‚ or the threat of death1. These include‚ but are not limited to‚ combat experiences‚ sexual and physical assault‚ accidents‚ and natural disasters2. In this paper‚ I will
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Social anxiety disorder‚ SAD‚ is a fairly common psychiatric condition in the United States. It is defined by excessive fear of judgment in social and performance situations. SAD is defined by emotional biases in addition to distorted and unrealistic negative self-beliefs. Patients diagnosed with SAD are plagued by internal cues‚ such as negative thoughts about one’s self‚ and external cues‚ such as other’s facial expressions (Goldin & Gross‚ 2010). Adults with SAD display abnormal attentional processes
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Maltreatment‚ when defined‚ is the cruel or violent treatment of a person or animal. In the psychological sense‚ maltreatment is almost always defined as child abuse. There are different ways to execute child maltreatment‚ but the most common are physical‚ sexual‚ and psychological abuse. Abuse also has many variables‚ such as race‚ gender‚ health‚ and social class. Ultimately‚ adolescent maltreatment most often leads to mental‚ impulse-control‚ and conduct issues. The first form of maltreatment
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Investigating the physiological response of anxiety through general knowledge and math questionnaires‚ with a focus of inducing anxiety through music. The aim of this study was to investigate the physiological effects associated with math anxiety‚ with a further aim to explore this in relation to tense music exposure. It was hypothesised that a maths questionnaire would produce a significantly higher anxiety response than a general knowledge questionnaire. It was also hypothesised that exposure
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hormonal system and even the functioning of their DNA. Early exposure to childhood adversity affects many parts of the brain‚ including the nucleus accumbens that triggers pleasure‚ the frontal cortex that triggers your impulse control‚ and the amygdala which triggers fear responses. After reading about a study conducted by another doctor that proved how significantly a child’s health can be compromised‚ Dr. Burke decided to do something within her practice to help decrease the amount of health
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of the limbic system. Absorber Absorber has the ability to remember what most people could never remember. Anything he has ever experienced‚ can be remembered in great detail. Amygdala An almond shaped mass of nuclei located deep within the temporal lobe of the brain. It is a limbic system structure that is involved in many of our emotions and motivations‚ particularly those that are related to survival. The fight or flight reaction
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Module 11 A. Behavior Genetics Chromosomes containing DNA are situated in the nucleus of the cell Segments within DNA consist of genes that make proteins to determine our development Genome is the set of complete instructions for making an organism‚ containing all the genes in that organism. Thus‚ the human genome makes us human‚ and the genome for drosophila makes it a common housefly. Studying the effects of heredity and environment on two sets of twins‚ identical (monozygotic) and fraternal
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In the article “Hooked on a Myth” Victoria Braithwaite argues that ‚ there should be a “biological for drawing a line.” She states this because the way that fisherman currently catch fish is that as if fish feel no pain.Studies from Braithwaite and her colleagues looked in trout and found that fish do indeed feel pain.She proves her statement by finding two nociceptors A delta and C fibers found inside of them which are the same nerves that we have that cause us to feel pain when harmed‚ thus the
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and have a healthy cognitive flexibility. Not only does abuse affect a child’s mental development‚ but physical discipline such as spanking affects it as well and that includes a negative effect on individual portions of the brain including the amygdala‚ hippocampus‚ corpus callosum‚ and the prefrontal cortex. Parents have a much greater influence on their child’s current and future mental well-being and development of their personalities than most are aware
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economic recessions‚ terrorist attacks‚ and natural disasters. People have little to no power over these things so they create erratic‚ over exaggerated theories to help them reason with what is happening. Also‚ there is a part of the brain called the amygdala. This part
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