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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
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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 such as mild depression and excessive worries precede the illness. METHOD: We studied 126 consecutive cases of panic...
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