Anxiety is defined as a condition, or unpleasant emotional state that involves feelings of worry, tension and apprehension (Bekker et al, 2003). To attempt to discover the causes of anxiety, and what areas of the brain are involved, Jeffrey Grays Behavioural Inhibition System (1982) will be discussed. Following this, further exploration of these beliefs by Carver and White (1994) will be explored. In addition to these, it is also suggested that anxiety is correlated to hippocampus and amygdala formation and volume, therefore, this idea will also be explored, other factors that may influence anxiety will also be discussed in order to consider other potential causes and consequences of anxiety. After review and consideration of this evidence, the question “To what extent can individual differences in anxiety be explained by variation in the “Behavioural Inhibition System” will be explained.
Jeffrey Grays (1982) Behavioural Activation System (BAS) and Behavioural Inhibition System (BIS) which are now occasionally referred to as Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory (RST) (Pickering and Corr, 2008) are theories of personality, which believe that individual differences in personality are due to neurobiological factors (Avila & Barrós-Loscertales, 2008). The Behavioural Activation System is motivated by reward and motivation. Whereas the Behavioural Inhibition System is motivated by sensitivity to punishment and avoidance (Goldberg et al, 2010) To test this theory, Carver and White
A Psychology disorder known as anxiety disorder, is the most common in the United States. In a result of, 18% of 40 million people suffers from anxiety. However, there are six different types of anxiety disorders in the results of stress, depression, social interaction, obsessive compulsive, and phobia. Which characteristic functions as a natural part of life, that can be treated thought several methods.
Qin, S., Young, C.B., Duan, X., Chen, T., Supekar, K., Menon, V.. (2013) argue that a possible biological reason behind high levels of anxiety is the size of the amygdala, the region
General Anxiety Disorder (GAD) affects almost seven million adults in the U.S. Of course with something as large and widespread as G.A.D. there is bound to be some myths and misconceptions. One of the biggest misconceptions is is that it affects everyone equally. That simply is not the case. The gender role differences affect the toll anxiety can take on a person. Women are twice as likely to suffer from a panic disorder like G.A.D.; hormones have a big role in anxiety, as men and women have different chemicals inside their body. There are also the multiple stressors like pregnancy that men will never face that would trigger anxiety.
As technology continues to progress and information spreads at an increasing rate, so does something called anxiety. The common understanding of anxiety in the American society is the nervousness caused by the pressure to conform to other’s expectations. This explains why anxiety rates are much higher in the United States than in many third-world countries, because Americans feel a need to be the best in every situation. As a society, the need to coexist and thrive as a common nation has faded, and has since broken into smaller subgroups by race and social class. The notion that there is a single correct way to behave and perform specific tasks is the root of all anxiety in a relatively stable society. Simply, the cause of all anxiety in
Anxiety is the body’s biological and psychological response to stressors. A stressor can be anything that cause an individual to feel threatened or cause stress. The body decides whether or not a situation is too difficult to deal with alone based upon past experiences and what it sees and hears. When a stressor is detected, the body’s stress response system known as the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis (HPA axis), begins a surge of biological events. As a result, the stress hormones adrenaline and cortisol are released. In the brain, the hypothalamus will then send a chemical message to the pituitary gland. However, people can
Oh, the old familiar feeling, that feeling you get when you know you have to get up in front of people and say something. The feeling when you are jumpy and shaky and you can’t really explain why, like before you go into an interview and you forget how to breathe. If you have experienced any of these situations you might be acquainted with anxiety. Anxiety is common with many reasons for its occurrence and there are different ways to manage it.
When the term "anxiety" is tossed around lightly, the unvarnished meaning of the word itself is diminished. Anxiety, at the bare minimum, is a mental and bodily response to demanding, potentially dangerous, and foreign situations ("What Is Anxiety?"). For the sake of ignorance, it could be, in a minuscule sense, compared to the overpowering feelings of queasiness, aversion, and distress one encounters before presenting to a full auditorium. To demonstrate the diverse impact anxiety has on its subject, HelpGuide.org states, "One individual may suffer from intense anxiety attacks that strike without warning, while another gets panicky at the thought of mingling at a party" ("Anxiety Disorders and Anxiety Attacks").
This article is about trying to find a correlation about using medication and therapy to treat children’s severe anxiety by using an experimental setting. In the study, they knew that using either drugs or therapy is enough for them, but children still couldn’t stop their anxiety. That is where this study comes in because it suggests that using both treatments at the same time will help the children. The children were a total of 488 people from ages 7-17 were put into four groups. One group were giving a combination of therapy and an anti-depressant called Sertraline. The next group was given a placebo. For the third group, they were given therapy and the last group was given the anti-depressant. The trail ending with data showing that
Behavioral Activation System (BAS) is a neurobehavioral system thought to regulate positive affect and approach behavior in response to incentives or rewards. Individuals vary in the sensitivity of the system and it is associated with the personality factor of extraversion. This has to do with the positive side to a person’s life and opportunity overall. Behavioral inhibition system (BIS) is a neurobehavioral organization thought to control negative affect and avoidance performance in response to intimidations or chastisement. Individuals vary in the sensitivity of the system and it is associated with the
Anxiety is a feeling of fear, restlessness and unease about a situation that is approaching and at the same time we are unclear about what this situation is or what the exact reason for our state of malaise is. Unlike in fear, where we know exactly what is that we fear and what its causes are. For example, being assaulted in that situation we can experience the specific fear that we are being assaulted.
This Read really made me think and got me comparing my own thoughts to the work that they had. There are so many things I learned and figured out that I do on a normal basis. This made me think of myself and own ideas of anxiety. Where are each of my knobs? What do I see in others and their anxiety? And my thoughts on anxiety.
Charles Frankel said, “Anxiety is the essential condition of intellectual and artistic creation and everything that is finest in human history”. There is some evidence to support this idea that anxiety and other mood disorders are essential to many forms of art. In this article I will examine how mood disorders influence art, as well as give multiple examples of how mood disorders are portrayed in the following art forms: paintings, literature, and music.
Anxiety. According to google, anxiety is defined as, “A nervous disorder characterized by a state of excessive uneasiness and apprehension, typically with compulsive behavior or panic attacks.” For anyone who has ever felt the scratch of anxiety and knows its sting, this definition will mean more to you than to someone who has never had it because you have lived it. Most people don’t know what to do once they develop anxiety. No one preps you before hand. It just collides with you, one day you had never experienced it, the next day, you have. This leaves you unprepared in the area of managing it. While I am not a professional psychiatrist, I will be giving you advice on how to manage your anxiety, using mostly my own experience with it. With that being said, let’s get into the symptoms of anxiety.
Research Outcome: ‘To what extent do familial factors contribute to the development of anxiety disorders?’
The Behavioral Inhibition System (BIS) and the Behavioral Activation System (BAS) are two neural motivational systems. Sensitivity to punishment is adjusted by Behavioral Inhibition System and sensitivty to reward is regulated by Behavioral Activation System. If there is imbalance between these BIS and BAS systems, it can cause some forms of psychological problems (Scholten, Honk, Aleman, & Kahn, 2006).