Clinical features of panic attacks in schizophrenia
| Autor: | C Epelbaum, P Hardy, Marie-Odile Krebs, Franck Baylé, D Levy |
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| Rok vydání: | 2001 |
| Předmět: |
Adult
Male Psychosis medicine.medical_specialty 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine mental disorders medicine Humans 030212 general & internal medicine Psychiatry Psychiatric Status Rating Scales Schizophrenia Paranoid Psychopathology Panic disorder Panic medicine.disease 030227 psychiatry Psychiatry and Mental health Schizophrenia Panic Disorder Anxiety Female Schizophrenic Psychology medicine.symptom Age of onset Psychology Anxiety disorder |
| Zdroj: | European Psychiatry. 16:349-353 |
| ISSN: | 1778-3585 0924-9338 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/s0924-9338(01)00590-9 |
| Popis: | SummarySince reports have underscored that panic attacks (PA) may be an identifiable state occurring in schizophrenia, we studied the symptomatology of PA in a group of schizophrenic patients. Of 40 patients (21 males and 19 females) attending a clinic for maintenance therapy of schizophrenia, 19 (36.8%) had a lifetime history of PA. Seven among those 19 patients (36.8%) had or had had spontaneous panic attacks, not related to phobic fears or delusional fears, and for the 12 remaining patients, the PA were related to paranoid ideas. Moreover, the paranoid subtype of schizophrenia tends to be more often associated with a history of panic attack than other subtypes of schizophrenia (52.6% vs 23.8%; χ2 = 3.5, P = .06). It seems that there are at least two types of PA in schizophrenic patients. The first one could be independent from the psychotic feature, with no psychopathological link. The second kind of PA could be directly related to a schizophrenic disorder, and found in patients with the paranoid subtype. |
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