Title: Diagnostic systems, validity, and reliability
113er Congreso Colombiano de Psicología
Different patterns of defensive freezing response
associated with different anxiety disorders
Jesús Landeira-Fernandez
2Functions of the Nervous System
Two functions of the nervous system
Regulation of the internal environment through
homeostasis Visceral Nervous System
Interact with external environment through
behavior Somatic Nervous System
3Organization of the Nervous System
STIMULUS
BEHAVIOR
Defense Feeding Reproduction
4Organization of the Defense System
Dangerous Stimulus
Nervous System
Defensive Response
5Organization of the Defense System
Dangerous Stimulus
Innate
Cause some threat to the life to the individual
Learned
6Organization of the Defense System
7Organization of the Defense System
Danger Stimulus
Behavioral Inhibition
Freezing
Escape
Defensive Response
Fight
Behavioral Activation ACTIVITY BURST
8Organization of the Defense System
Theoretical Constructs
9Organization of the Defense System
Somatic Nervous System
Visceral Nervous System
10Organization of the Defense System
Somatic Nervous System
Visceral Nervous System
11Interaction between Pain and Fear Motivational
System
Pain motivational system activates fear
motivational system through classical conditioning
Pain Motivational System
Fear Motivational System
Contextual Fear Conditioning
Neutral Stimuli
12Interaction between Fear and Fear Motivational
System
Fear motivational system inhibits pain
motivational system through analgesia
Pain Motivational System
Fear Motivational System
Analgesia
13Interaction between Fear and Fear Motivational
System
Classical Conditioning
Analgesia
14Contextual Fear Conditioning Paradigm
First Day
000
300
320
340
400
A few minutes of habituation
Dia 1 Treinamento
A few rapid and not very intense footshocks
000
300
Second Day Testing Session
15Typical Contextual fear Conditioning Result
Freezing depends on the intensity of the shock
16Activation of the Pain Motivational System in the
Vacuum The Immediate Shock Deficit
17Activation of the fear Motivational System in the
Vacuum The Immediate Shock Deficit
18Delayed but not Immediate Shock Induces Analgesia
19Immediate Shock does not Induce Analgesia
20Opioid Analgesia
21Opioid Analgesia
22Non-Opioid Analgesia
23Fear and Pain Motivational Systems
Dangerous Stimuli
Motivational Systems
Defense Responses
Distal Innate
Fear
Freezing
Learned Innate
Classical Conditioning
Analgesia
Pain
Activity Burst
Proximal
24Fear and Pain x Anxiety and Panic
Motivational Systems
Defense Responses
Motivational Systems Dysfunctions
Fear
Anxiety
Freezing
Classical Conditioning
Analgesia
Panic Attack
Pain
Activity Burst
25Deakin-Graeff Model
Dysfunctions
Anxiety
Activates
Inhibits
Panic Attack
26Functions x Dysfunctions
Deakin-Graeff Model
Fanselow Model
Functions
Dysfunctions
Fear
Anxiety
Activates
Classical Conditioning
Inhibits
Analgesia
Panic Attack
Pain
27Animal Models to Investigate Anxiety and Panic
Attack
Contextual fear conditioning (Model of
Generalized Anxiety Disorder)
dPAG Electrical Stimulation (Model of Panic
Attack)
28Animal Model of Panic Attack
dPAG electrical stimulation
29dPAG electrical stimulation
Increasing the intensity of the dPAG electrical
stimulation there is first a freezing response
followed by vigorous running and jump reactions.
30The Periaqueductal Gray Matter
Periaqueductal Gray (PAG)
Electrode Tract
Stimulation Site in the Dorsal Portion of the
PAG
Cerebral Aqueduct
31Does Anxiety (contextual fear conditioning)
Inhibits Panic Attacks (dPAG electrical
stimulation)?
dPAG Electrical Stimulation (Model of Panic
Attack)
Contextual fear conditioning (Model of
Generalized Anxiety Disorder)
32Does Anxiety (contextual fear conditioning)
Inhibits Panic Attacks (dPAG electrical
stimulation)?
33Two Types of Freezing the context shift test
Contextual fear conditioning
34Two Types of Freezing the context shift test
Contextual fear conditioning
35Two Types of Freezing the context shift test
dPAG electrical stimulation
36Two Types of Freezing the context shift test
dPAG electrical stimulation
37Two Types of Freezing the context shift test
Contextual fear conditioning
dPAG electrical stimulation
38Two Types of Freezing
Freezing Induced by Contextual Fear Conditining
Amygdala
vPAG
Freezing
Freezing Induced by dPAG Electrical Stimulation
?
dPAG
?
39Comparison between dlPAG and vlPAG electrical
stimulation
40Comparison between dlPAG and vlPAG electrical
stimulation
Freezing after dPAG electrical stimulation
41Effect of vPAG Lesions on Conditioned and
Unconditioned Freezing
42Histology of vPAG Lesion and dPAG Electrical
Stimulation
vPAG Lesions
dPAG Electrical Stimulation
43Effect of vPAG Lesions on Conditioned and
Unconditioned Freezing
Contextual fear conditioning
dPAG electrical stimulation
44Effect of Amydgala Lesions on Conditioned and
Unconditioned Freezing
45Histology of Amygdala Lesion and dPAG Electrical
Stimulation
Amygdala Lesions
dPAG Stimulation
46Effect of Amygdala Lesions on Conditioned and
Unconditioned Freezing
Contextual fear conditioning
dPAG electrical stimulation
47Summary
48Summary
Fear Motivational System Responsibe for General
Anxiety Disorder
Pain Motivational System Responsibe for
Panic Attack
49Collaborators
Marcus Brandão USP-RP A.Pedro de Mello Cruz -
UnB Regina Nogueira - UNESA Daniel M Vianna
USP-RP Valeska Mageriek - UNIFESP
Cecília De Luca USP-RP Luciana Oliveira
USP-RP Vitor Castro PUC-Rio Bruno Galvão
PUC-Rio Bruno Larrubia PUC-Rio
50Contact
www.landeira.org landeira_at_puc-rio.br
Thanks to Fernando Cárdenas Universidad de los
Andes
Muchas Grácias !!!