Talk:Issues in Interdisciplinarity 2020-21/Evidence in the Development and Diagnosis of Anxiety Disorders

Suggestions and Edits
I read the intro and I think it gives a good overview of GAD. Maybe the end of it could be a bit more precise and bring more of an emphasis to the tensions between the disciplines we're exploring? --TheStarryLamppost (discuss • contribs) 10:22, 8 December 2020 (UTC)

Suggestion on subtitles: Hi I'm thinking about if the psychiatric and neurobiological approach part concerns more about diagnosis issues, will it be better to change the overall subtitle of the part to “Diagnosis of Anxiety Disorders“? --PepperOud (discuss • contribs) 15:02, 8 December 2020 (UTC)
 * I think it might be clearer if for both our parts show different perspectives on both the development and diagnosis(/treatment) of anxiety, rather than each of our parts exploring different issues as this would make it harder to make the tensions between disciplines obvious. For my section I've been working on one part exploring neurobiological evidence for anxiety (explaining the development of anxiety from a biological perspective) and then I'm talking about diagnoses in psychiatry.--TheStarryLamppost (discuss • contribs) 15:21, 8 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Ok I've changed the subtitles again --PepperOud (discuss • contribs) 23:23, 9 December 2020 (UTC)

Hi, I was thinking it may be better to combine the parts on cognitive psychology and neurobiology as they both look into the neuronal processes relating to behaviour, and both are used in psychiatry. Having looked over the drafts again I also think there would be overlap in what is discussed in those sections which would lengthen the chapter in an unnecessary way, giving less space for us to go in more detail about the tensions between disciplines. I think this would also make the structure more clear as we'd have a first part linking science and behaviour, while the second part is more social with anthropology. Let me know what you guys think! --TheStarryLamppost (discuss • contribs) 10:14, 8 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Yeah we do need to leave more spaces for other parts. But there're also some differences between the two disciplines as cognitive psychology is less biological and focuses mainly on the thinking process. Can you explain more about how to combine the two parts together? Alternatively I can also shorten the cognitive psychology part --PepperOud (discuss • contribs) 23:23, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
 * That's a good point. I mostly had some concerns about how you were linking cognitive psychology to psychiatry and the diagnosis of GAD by talking about the DSM, while your part on cognitive psychology was a sub-part alongside anthropology, making it seem to me that it would fit better under psychiatry. You've since changed the sub-titles again anyway which I think fixes part of the issue. I think we could actually definitely keep the parts separate as long as we make sure not to have too much overlap between the parts, so for example maybe you could insist more on the non-biological factors of GAD in psychology while I do the opposite.--TheStarryLamppost (discuss • contribs) 10:28, 10 December 2020 (UTC)
 * In that case you can use DSM related content I have written in the psychology part and move them to the psychiatry part. I will delete DSM from my part later. --PepperOud (discuss • contribs) 15:14, 10 December 2020 (UTC)

Hey, I think we should add pictures, graphs or diagrams to illustrate what we say
 * Yes good idea!--TheStarryLamppost (discuss • contribs) 18:03, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
 * I've just added a table detailing in the percentage differences of diagnosed anxiety disorders across ethnical groups in America --PepperOud (discuss • contribs) 23:14, 9 December 2020 (UTC)

Hi again, I think we should make sure to go over the referencing again once we're done writing everything up, just to make sure we're using the same variation and formatting of the Vancouver system so that everything matches.--TheStarryLamppost (discuss • contribs) 19:26, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Yeah it's a good idea --PepperOud (discuss • contribs) 23:23, 9 December 2020 (UTC)

Hello, I think in the anthropology part, maybe you could make more clear that the social anxiety TKS means Taijin Kyofusho. Don't know if its clear but you're sentence could be like: "A type of social anxiety called Taijin Kyofusho (TKS) is more commonly found in east Asia than somewhere else". We should also explain why the percentage of people suffering from anxiety is low in the asian American community while at the end of your part you explain that there is High anxiety in Asia. Maybe you could add that this is a result of anxiety being taboo in some cultures and therefore the studies shows low levels of anxiety while in reality it is a lot more. Or something like that. But well wrote for the rest? :)
 * Thank you for suggestions. I will try to find more information explaining the reasons behind high social anxiety level in Asian countries. Also there can be some differences between the environment within Asian American communities and within Asian countries. --PepperOud (discuss • contribs) 15:14, 10 December 2020 (UTC)

For the Cognitive psychology part, I think we should explain more what are mental distortions, very quickly but just to understand what it means. And also, put more emphasis on DSM. What is it, how it came to be, and maybe also what were the evolution through DSM 1,2,3,4,5 in its definition, diagnosis and treatment of GAD.

For neurobiology, adding a neuroimage of a brain (preferably human) suffering from anxiety could be cool and interesting!
 * I think these are all very good ideas! I'll try to find an image for the neurobiology part. For the details on the DSM, I was wondering if we should write that in the psychiatry part, as it is mostly used by psychiatrists to diagnose GAD and other disorders?--TheStarryLamppost (discuss • contribs) 10:06, 10 December 2020 (UTC)
 * I found an image of an MRI scan that we can use but I'm having issues uploading it, would one of you mind helping?--TheStarryLamppost (discuss • contribs) 01:47, 14 December 2020 (UTC)

12th December
Having finished putting together the majority of the wikibooks chapter, we agreed on some structural changes including leaving out the cognitive psychology part and separating the parts on neurobiology and psychiatry. The aim of this was for us to be able to explore the tensions between anthropology and neuroscience as well as issues of their inclusion in psychiatry more specifically.--TheStarryLamppost (discuss • contribs) 12:58, 14 December 2020 (UTC)

6th December
Since the last meeting we've been working on our first drafts for each of our sections. We also added these to the google doc in order for each of us to have access to the exact content the others were writing about, in order for us to make sure what we were writing was coherent and worked well with the other sections. This also helped us find more precise conflicts between disciplines which Gabriel will be able to explore in his final section. Our aim is to now start adding and editing our sections directly on the wiki page. TheStarryLamppost (discuss • contribs)

27th November: Zoom meeting 2
We went over the research we did and the information each of us found relating to anxiety disorders, having shared all of this on the google doc preceding the meeting. We used this to highlight the tensions that could be explored between disciplines and we came up with a structure for our wikibooks chapter. Sarah is going to focus on the psychiatric and neurobiological aspects in the diagnosis and treatment of anxiety, Joyce will explore aspects of anthropology and Gabriel will write the introduction and the end part bringing out the tensions and conflicts between the previously mentioned disciplines. We also would like to hint at a possible resolution of conflicts at the end. TheStarryLamppost (discuss • contribs)

20th November: Zoom meeting 1
During this first session we brainstormed various ideas for our chapter. We ended up discussing mental health disorders and decided to focus on anxiety disorders in particular. We talked about the issues anxiety disorders pose in modern societies where people of all ages are subjected to more stress we could include disciplines such as anthropology, neuroscience and psychiatry. We agreed to make a google doc where we could share links and information we found on the topic in the upcoming weeks. TheStarryLamppost (discuss • contribs)