Anxiety disorders are characterized by
emotional arousal associated with fear, worry, or nervousness that is out of proportion to the situation.
Not exact matches
Teenagers who play violent video games may display increased activity in areas of the brain
associated with
emotional arousal, according to research from the Indiana University School of Medicine, located in Indianapolis.
Marking is a form of communication which can be
associated with a heightened state of
emotional arousal or stress in the cat.
In 2006, a small study by Indiana University found that teenagers who played violent video games showed higher levels of
emotional arousal, but less activity in the parts of the brain
associated with the ability to plan, control and direct thoughts and behavior.
Question: In children and adolescents with mood or anxiety disorders, is antidepressant use
associated with symptoms of excessive
emotional arousal or behavioural activation?
Trait anxiety refers to stable individual differences in propensity for anxiety proneness whereas state anxiety is a transitory
emotional reaction that is characterized by subjective feelings of tension, apprehension, nervousness, and worry; and is
associated with physiological
arousal.
In contrast areas of the right hemisphere
associated with
emotional states and autonomic
arousal, especially the amygdala, which is the centre for detecting threat light up.
The amygdala is
associated with
arousal and reactions to threatening stimuli, as well as
emotional learning and memory.
Animal research also makes clear that withdrawing parental behaviours that fail to soothe the infant's fearful
arousal are
associated with enduring hyper -
arousal of the stress response system.12, 13 Therefore, Lyons - Ruth, Bronfman and Atwood suggest that both fearful affect generated by the parent and fearful affect generated from other sources in the context of parental
emotional unavailability may contribute to infant disorganization.14, 15 A spectrum of parental behaviours has been shown by meta - analysis to be
associated with infant disorganization.
Some areas that sex therapy can address are desire discrepancies within a couple, development & deepening of
emotional and sexual intimacy,
arousal and desire concerns, difficulties with climax, emerging sexual identities, socio - cultural factors
associated with sexuality, open relationships, extra-marital affairs & infidelity, diversity of sexual expression, cybersexuality, sexual trauma, abuse & rape, sexual dysfunction such as difficulty establishing or maintaining an erectile and painful sex.
Subsequently, we tested whether OT increased
emotional arousal during / following conflict, which might, in turn, be
associated with higher sympathetic activity specifically in men.