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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
5
pubmed:dateCreated
1987-12-15
pubmed:abstractText
Hyperventilation syndrome and panic disorder are both common, serious, and easily treatable disorders. The similarity of their symptoms and physiology, the demonstration of hyperventilation during spontaneous and laboratory-induced panic episodes, provocation of panic-like symptoms in some patients with panic disorder using hyperventilation, the importance of psychologic factors in producing hyperventilation, and successful treatment of panic disorder with breathing retraining all indicate a strong association between these two conditions. About 50 percent of patients in each group show evidence of both disorders. It is suggested that many patients in each group show evidence of both disorders. It is suggested that many patients with either diagnosis have the same disorder and share a biologically and often genetically determined hypersensitivity of a central "alarm" system. Panic and hyperventilation provoked by inappropriate activation of this system are postulated to reinforce each other by a positive feedback loop. Treatments directed at any part of this loop are likely to be successful. Clinical implications of the link between these conditions are discussed.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Nov
pubmed:issn
0002-9343
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
83
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
929-37
pubmed:dateRevised
2008-11-21
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1987
pubmed:articleTitle
Hyperventilation and panic disorder.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Review