Diagnosis and Management of Panic Disorder in Older Patients

Drugs and Aging

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 881-891

  Flint, Alastair J ^a,b,c   Gagnon, Nadine ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^b TORONTO REHABILITATION INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c TORONTO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; ALCOHOL; ALPRAZOLAM; AMPHETAMINE DERIVATIVE; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; BARBITURIC ACID DERIVATIVE; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; BUSPIRONE; CAFFEINE; CALCIUM; CITALOPRAM; CLONAZEPAM; GLUCOSE; HALOPERIDOL; ILLICIT DRUG; IMIPRAMINE; LORAZEPAM; MIRTAZAPINE; MONOAMINE OXIDASE INHIBITOR; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT; PHENELZINE; SALBUTAMOL; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; SERTRALINE; THEOPHYLLINE; THYROXINE; TRIAZOLAM; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; UNINDEXED DRUG; VENLAFAXINE;

AKATHISIA; ANAMNESIS; ANTICHOLINERGIC EFFECT; ANXIETY DISORDER; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; CARDIOTOXICITY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COMORBIDITY; COST; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; DROWSINESS; DRUG ELIMINATION; DRUG HALF LIFE; EDEMA; GAIT DISORDER; HIP FRACTURE; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INCIDENCE; PANIC; PHYSICAL DISEASE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME;

AGED; ANTI-ANXIETY AGENTS; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; PANIC DISORDER; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITORS;

EID: 0242331134     PISSN: 1170229X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/00002512-200320120-00002     Document Type: Review

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