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Panic Disorder
Aka: Panic Disorder, Panic Attack
- See Also
- Panic Disorder Diagnosis
- Panic Disorder Management
- Agoraphobia
- Anxiety Disorder
- Anxiety Secondary Cause
- Anxiety Symptoms
- Generalized Anxiety Disorder
- Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
- Body Dysmorphic Disorder
- Social Anxiety Disorder (Social Phobia)
- Acute Stress Disorder
- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
- Excessive Worry
- Anxiety Non-pharmacologic Management
- Anxiety Pharmacologic Management
- Epidemiology
- Lifetime Prevalence: 7.0% in women, 3.3% in men
- Age of onset: 20 to 25 years old
- Women affected more often than men
- Types
- Avoidance behaviors
- Panic Disorder with Agoraphobia
- Panic Disorder without Agoraphobia
- Trigger
- Spontaneous Panic Attack
- Unidentifiable trigger
- Situational Panic Attack
- Social Phobia
- Fear of flying
- Stage fright
- Fear of animals, Insects or snakes
- Symptoms and Signs
- See Panic Symptoms
- Recurrent, unexpected Panic Attacks
- Diagnosis
- See Panic Disorder Diagnosis
- Severity Measure for Panic Disorder - Adult
- http://www.psychiatry.org/File%20Library/Practice/DSM/DSM-5/SeverityMeasureForPanicDisorderAdult.pdf
- Question: "In the last 4 weeks, have you had an anxiety attack (sudden feeling of panic)?"
- Positive Likelihood Ratio: 4.2
- Negative Likelihood Ratio: 0.09
- Associated Conditions
- Headache
- Diarrhea
- Insomnia
- Hand coldness
- Chronic Fatigue
- Suicidal Ideation
- Alcohol Abuse or Drug Abuse
- Differential Diagnosis
- See Anxiety Secondary Causes
- Other psychiatric conditions
- Social Anxiety Disorder
- Specific phobias
- Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
- Separation Anxiety Disorder
- Comorbid conditions
- Major Depression
- Chemical Dependency
- Interpersonal conflict
- Management
- See Panic Management
- Prognosis
- Recurs in 30-90% of patients within 1 year
- References
- APA (1994) DSM IV, APA, p. 395
- Starr (November, 1998) Patient Care
- Katerndahl (1997) Postgrad Med, 101(1): 147-66 [PubMed]
- Katerndahl (1996) J Fam Pract, 43(3): 275-82 [PubMed]
- Locke (2015) Am Fam Physician 91(9): 617-24 [PubMed]
- Rubin (1996) Phys Sportsmed, 24(12):54-65 [PubMed]
- Saeed (1998) Am Fam Physician, 57(10):2405-12 [PubMed]
- Weinstein (1995) Am Fam Physician, 52(7):2055-63 [PubMed]