Article
Delineating a putative phobic-anxious temperament in 126 panic-agoraphobic patients: toward a rapprochement of European and US views.
Journal of affective disorders - 1 Jan 1998
Perugi G, Toni C, Benedetti A, Simonetti B, Simoncini M, Torti C, Musetti L, Akiskal H S
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: The current US official position, since DSM-III, is that panic attacks represent the hallmark of panic disorder and play a major role in the development of the agoraphobic syndrome. The more favoured view in the European tradition is that neurotic personality and/or prodromal features...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Age of Onset
- Agoraphobia
- Anxiety Disorders
- Child
- Child, Preschool
- Comorbidity
- Cross-Cultural Comparison
- Europe
- Family
- Female
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
- Humans
- Infant
- Male
- Panic Disorder
- Personality Disorders