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Prolactin response to the cold pressor test in patients with panic attacks
(1983)
Recent advances in psychiatric nosology have provided a clearer clinical description of panic disorder and agoraphobia with panic attacks. This clinical improvement has yet to result in a better understanding of the basic ...
New perspective on the pathophysiology of panic: merging serotonin and opioids in the periaqueductal gray
(Associação Brasileira de Divulgação Científica, 2012)
Panic disorder patients are vulnerable to recurrent panic attacks. Two neurochemical hypotheses have been proposed to explain this susceptibility. The first assumes that panic patients have deficient serotonergic inhibition ...
Panic attacks in a patient treated with isotretinoin for acne. Report of one case Crisis de pánico en un paciente con acné tratado con isotretinoína. Caso clínico
(2006)
The use of isotretinoin as a treatment for acne is related to psychiatric syndromes such as psychosis and depression. On the other hand, several drugs have been identified as causing panic attacks. A relationship between ...
The hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis in anxiety and panic
(Pontificia Universidade Católica do Rio de JaneiroUniversidade de BrasíliaUniversidade de São Paulo, 2010)
This review article focuses on the differential activation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis in generalized anxiety and panic. The results of experimental studies that assayed adrenocorticotropic hormone, ...
Neurobiology of panic disorder: From animal models to brain neuroimaging
(PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD, 2008)
Evidence from animal models of anxiety has led to the hypothesis that serotonin enhances inhibitory avoidance (related to anxiety) in the forebrain, but inhibits one-way escape (panic) in the midbrain periaqueductal gray ...
Burden and Distress in Caregivers of Patients With Panic Disorder and Agoraphobia
(Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2017-01-01)
We estimated the prevalence, severity, and correlates of burden and distress in caregivers of patients with panic disorder and agoraphobia. The instruments used in this cross-sectional study with 40 caregivers and 40 ...
Panic attacks and agoraphobia: Low dose clomipramine treatment
(1989)
Seventeen outpatients with panic anxiety and agoraphobia were treated with a low, flexible dose of clomipramine in an 8-week open trial. Panic attacks ceased completely in 13 patients and markedly decreased in the other ...
Panic-like escape response elicited in mice by exposure to CO2, but not hypoxia
(2018-02-02)
Exposure to elevated concentrations of CO2 or hypoxia has been widely used in psychiatric research as a panic provoking stimulus. However, the use of these respiratory challenges to model panic-like responses in experimental ...
A panic attack-like unusual stress reaction
(Elsevier B.V., 2008-11-01)
Ever since the seminal studies of Hans Selye, activation of hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis is emblematic of stress. Consequently, the lack of HPA axis responses following the undisputable psychological stress ...