Early-life risk factors for panic and separation anxiety disorder: Insights and outstanding questions arising from human and animal studies of CO2 sensitivity

Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews

Volumn 46, Issue P3, 2014, Pages 455-464

  Battaglia, Marco ^a,b   Ogliari, Anna ^c,d   D'Amato, Francesca ^e   Kinkead, Richard ^a,f  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b CENTRE DE RECHERCHE DE L INSTITUT UNIVERSITAIRE EN SANTÉ MENTALE DE QUÉBEC   (Canada)

^c VITA SALUTE SAN RAFFAELE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^d SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^e IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

^f LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Carbon dioxide challenge; Carbon dioxide sensitivity; Childhood parental loss; Control of breathing; Fear; Gene environment interaction; Hypercapnia; Panic disorder; Rodent models; Separation anxiety; Twin studies

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE;

ACIDIFICATION; CARBON DIOXIDE HYPERSENSITIVITY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT; EMOTIONALITY; ENDOPHENOTYPE; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; HYPERCAPNIA; HYPERSENSITIVITY; LIFE EVENT; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PANIC; PARENTAL BEHAVIOR; PARENTAL DEPRIVATION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SEPARATION ANXIETY; STRESS; ANIMAL; ANXIETY, SEPARATION; COMPLICATION; DISEASE MODEL; GENETICS; MENTAL STRESS; METABOLISM; PANIC DISORDER;

ANIMALS; ANXIETY, SEPARATION; CARBON DIOXIDE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HUMANS; PANIC DISORDER; RISK FACTORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84911458172     PISSN: 01497634     EISSN: 18737528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2014.04.005     Document Type: Review

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