Part 1 - 200 words required
Anxiety Disorders
Human emotions can be positive or negative experiences. The brain manages the impact of emotions on overall mental functioning with its "executive processing" function area of the cortex which inhibits the activity of the emotion-processing region. When negative emotions are too strong for this inhibition process to work, a state anxiety can occur.
Anxiety can be acute, short-term and, while distressing to the person experiencing it, not a mental health concern; or it can chronic and recurring and significantly life disruptive. There are nearly a dozen different anxiety related conditions classified as disorders in the medical literature.
New research has found differing patterns of brain activity associated with each of two types of anxiety, anxious apprehension with verbal rumination and worry the predominant symptoms, and anxious arousal with intense fear, panic, or both, the predominant symptoms.
After watching the video Anxiety Overview located at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Cr7IomSy8s
share which anxiety disorder you believe would be the most challenging to have and explain why. Include in your decision about which disorder would be the most challenging for you what you learn from the video and this week's assigned readings about anxiety disorder symptoms, how disruptive to everyday function they are and the treatment options available for the various disorders.
Although the video says anxiety is "easily treated" that statement compares it to other psychological disorders, some of which can be very resistant to treatment.
Some anxiety disorders may have more treatment options and be more responsive to treatment but also may be more significantly life disruptive symptoms than others and your choice point in considering them would be one of more treatment options to try if one or more doesn't work vs. the symptoms being more severe than symptoms of other disorders with fewer treatment options. Your choice of disorder to post about will be personal; your post will need to show knowledge gained from engaging with learning materials.
Part 2 - 200 words required
Course Take-aways
Describe three "take-aways" from your learning experience and explain why they are take-aways for you.
A take-away is something from the course that stood out to you as particularly noteworthy, meaningful, unexpected, applicable to the world around you, etc., and potentially useful in your future studies, current or future work or personal life.
Give this portion of your post careful thought. This is a reflection on learning rather than description of topics covered in readings activity.
Textbook: Pinel, J. (2014). Biopsychology (9th edition). Pearson Publishing.
Quoting of published authors is not allowed in forum posts. This is because your professor needs to see what you comprehend of the learning material and how you can apply that knowledge in responding to the forum topic prompts, not what somebody else said in a publication.
Instead of quoting, to support your writing with scholarly sources you will need to paraphrase (summarize in your own words) what you read.