Sympathetic activity in patients with panic disorder at rest, under laboratory mental stress, and during panic attacks

Archives of General Psychiatry

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 511-520

  Wilkinson, Dominic J C ^a   Thompson, Jane M ^a   Lambert, Gavin W ^b   Jennings, Carry L ^a   Schwarz, Rosemary G ^c   Jefferys, Don ^a   Turner, Andrea G ^a   Esler, Murray D ^a,d  

^a ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^c The Melbourne Clinic   (Australia)

^d Medical Research Institute   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENERGIC ACTIVITY; ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; PANIC; SYMPATHETIC TONE;

ADRENAL MEDULLA; ADULT; AGED; BLOOD PRESSURE; EPINEPHRINE; FEMALE; HEART; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLES; MYOCARDIUM; NOREPINEPHRINE; PANIC DISORDER; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; RADIOISOTOPE DILUTION TECHNIQUE; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 0031744777     PISSN: 0003990X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archpsyc.55.6.511     Document Type: Article

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