[Are pathological (or vital) anxiety and common fear the same experiences? A controlled study].

Autor: Ramos Brieva JA; Servicio de Psiquiatría, Hospital, Ramón y Cajal, Madrid., Montejo Iglesias ML, Ponce de León C, del Valle López P, Lafuente López R, Cordero Villafáfila A, Baca García E
Jazyk: Spanish; Castilian
Zdroj: Actas luso-espanolas de neurologia, psiquiatria y ciencias afines [Actas Luso Esp Neurol Psiquiatr Cienc Afines] 1996 May-Jun; Vol. 24 (3), pp. 119-23.
Abstrakt: Introduction: Some authors affirm that the anxiety of panic attacks is endogenous and of different quality that the common fear. But objective clinical data don't exist that confirm that observation.
Method: The authors study by means of a discriminant analysis the description of the anxiety made by subject with panic attacks and normal subjects with common fear.
Results: It meet a discriminant function that shows the existence of qualitative differences between both experiences.
Conclusion: It seem to have achieved enough empirical support in order to sustain that the anxiety of panic attacks and the common fear are two qualitatively different experiences; presumably due to their several origin.
Databáze: MEDLINE