Lifelong opioidergic vulnerability through early life separation: A recent extension of the false suffocation alarm theory of panic disorder

Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews

Volumn 46, Issue P3, 2014, Pages 345-351

  Preter, Maurice ^a   Klein, Donald F ^b  

^a Department of Psychiatry College of Physicians and Surgeons Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY CHILD STUDY CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Affective neuroscience; Childhood parental loss (CPL); Endogenous opioids; Panic disorder pathophysiology

Indexed keywords

BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; CARBON DIOXIDE; IMIPRAMINE; MORPHINE; OPIATE; OPIATE AGONIST; OPIATE PEPTIDE;

AGORAPHOBIA; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANTICIPATORY ANXIETY; BEREAVEMENT; COMORBIDITY; DISTRESS SYNDROME; DRUG EFFECT; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PANIC; PARENTAL DEPRIVATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; REVIEW; SEPARATION ANXIETY; SUFFOCATION; ASPHYXIA; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPLICATION; METABOLISM;

ANXIETY, SEPARATION; ASPHYXIA; CARBON DIOXIDE; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OPIOID PEPTIDES; PANIC DISORDER;

EID: 84911407786     PISSN: 01497634     EISSN: 18737528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2014.03.025     Document Type: Review

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