The nurse caring for a patient recently diagnosed with an anxiety disorder knows that which physiological disturbance is thought to result in pathologic anxiety?

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4. A heightened response to catecholamine levels is a normal physiological response of the body to stress. Tefera, Shah, & Hsu (2012) posit that pathologic anxiety results in cerebral cortex disturbances, especially in the limbic system. Increased pituitary response, increased cortisol production and decreased epinephrine response are not associated with pathologic anxiety.

The Nurse Caring for a Patient Recently Diagnosed with an Anxiety