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General paresis of the insane
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Afflicted 10-15% of institutionalized people at turn of century. Mania, delusions, cognitive deterioration, paralysis, death. Traced to brain infection.
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Anxiety disorders
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Inappropriate expression of fear. 15% of Americans/year. Real or imagined stimuli.
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Panic disorder
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Experience panic attacks - sudden feelings of intense terror that occur without warning. Palpitations, sweating, trembling. Recurring and unprovoked. 2%.
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Agoraphobia
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Severe anxiety about being in situations where escape is either impossible or embarrassing. 5%.
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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
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OCD. Obsessions (recurrent, intrusive thoughts) and compulsions (repetitive behaviors/mental acts) performed to reduce anxiety. 2%.
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Stress response
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Coordinated reaction to threatening stimuli: avoidance behavior, increased vigilance and arousal, activation of sympathetic ANS, release of cortisol from adrenal glands
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Hypothalamic pituitary adrenal (HPA) axis
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Mediates humoral response of stress response.
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ACTH and CRH
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Parvocellular neurosecretory neurons in the paraventricular nucleus of hypothalamus releases CRH (corticotropin releasing hormone) which stimulates anterior pituitary gland to release Adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH)
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Glucocorticoid receptors
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Hippocampus. Respond to the cortisol release from adrenal gland in response to HPA system activation.
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Anxiolytic medications
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Medications that reduce anxiety - they act by altering chemical synaptic transmission in the brain.
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