The panic-agoraphobic spectrum: Development, description, and clinical significance

Psychiatric Clinics of North America

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 739-756

  Shear, M Katherine ^a   Cassano, Giovanni B ^b   Frank, Ellen ^a   Rucci, Paola ^a,b   Rotondo, Alessandro ^b   Fagiolini, Andrea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; BENZODIAZEPINE; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT; NON PRESCRIPTION DRUG; PSYCHOTROPIC AGENT; STREET DRUG;

AGORAPHOBIA; ANXIETY; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BIPOLAR DISORDER; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DRUG ABUSE; HUMAN; HYPOCHONDRIASIS; MOOD DISORDER; NEUROBIOLOGY; PANIC; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS; REVIEW; SEPARATION ANXIETY; STRESS; SUBSTANCE ABUSE;

ADULT; AGORAPHOBIA; ANXIETY, SEPARATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOOD DISORDERS; PANIC DISORDER; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; RISK FACTORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 0036890054     PISSN: 0193953X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0193-953X(02)00032-1     Document Type: Review

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