The relationship of panic attacks to autonomically labile generalized anxiety

Some data show that probands suffering from a mixed or panicking form of generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) tend to manifest more cross-sectional somatic anxiety than patients who have the pure or nonpanicking form. This has generated the hypothesis that mixed and pure GAD represent autonomically la...

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Published in:Comprehensive psychiatry 1988-03, Vol.29 (2), p.91-97
Main Authors: Koehler, Karl, Vartzopoulos, Dimitrios, Ebel, Hermann
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Adult and adolescent clinical studies
Anxiety Disorders - physiopathology
Autonomic Nervous System - physiopathology
Biological and medical sciences
Fear
Female
Humans
Medical sciences
Middle Aged
Panic
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
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Summary:Some data show that probands suffering from a mixed or panicking form of generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) tend to manifest more cross-sectional somatic anxiety than patients who have the pure or nonpanicking form. This has generated the hypothesis that mixed and pure GAD represent autonomically labile and stable subgroups of generalized anxiety disorder respectively. A corollary might be that patients with mixed GAD also have higher lifetime rates of autonomically labile episodes of GAD. The present findings, derived using criteria disregarding the current exclusionary system on which DSM-III is based, failed to support this hypothesis, though a trend in the expected direction emerged.
ISSN:0010-440X
1532-8384
DOI:10.1016/0010-440X(88)90002-8