Panic disorder respiratory subtype: Psychopathology, laboratory challenge tests, and response to treatment

Harvard Review of Psychiatry

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 220-229

  Freire, Rafael C ^a,b   Perna, Giampaolo ^c   Nardi, Antonio E ^a,b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b National Institute for Translational Medicine   (Brazil)

^c San Benedetto Hospital   (Italy)

Author keywords

Caffeine; Carbon dioxide; Genetics; Nocturnal panic attacks; Panic attacks; Respiratory symptom; Traumatic suffocation

Indexed keywords

CAFFEINE; CARBON DIOXIDE; LACTIC ACID;

AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ASPHYXIA; BREATHING DISORDER; DIAGNOSTIC USE; DYSPNEA; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; HUMAN; HYPERVENTILATION; MENTAL DISEASE; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PANIC DISORDER; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOLOGY; RISK FACTOR;

AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ASPHYXIA; CAFFEINE; CARBON DIOXIDE; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DYSPNEA; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; HYPERVENTILATION; LACTIC ACID; PANIC DISORDER; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOPATHOLOGY; RESPIRATION DISORDERS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 77954418509     PISSN: 10673229     EISSN: 14657309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/10673229.2010.493744     Document Type: Review

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