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Panic Disorder
Mini Quiz: Panic Disorder
June 28, 2018
Some patients with panic disorder have chronic, persistent symptoms. Take the quiz and learn more.
Treatment-Resistant Panic Disorder
November 27, 2017
How to help the one-third of patients with panic disorder who have chronic, persistent symptoms?
Mislabeling Medical Illness As Mental Disorder
February 13, 2013
DSM-5 must emphasize that physical symptoms deserve the respect of a thorough work-up before assuming their cause is psychiatric. And people with defined medical illnesses should not be casually mislabeled as also mentally ill just because they are upset about being sick.
Panic Attacks and Suicide
February 12, 2013
According to the CDC's latest published report, there were 38,364 suicides in the US in 2010-an average of 105 each day. Globally, an estimated 1 million suicides occur annually.
Comorbid Movement and Psychiatric Disorders
January 18, 2013
The goal of this article is to improve recognition of comorbid psychiatric and movement disorders and to help the reader formulate a management strategy using a multidisciplinary approach.
Why Panic Attacks Are Nearly Always Pathological
January 11, 2013
Panic attacks are nearly always pathological and disordered states, even when they occur in an understandable context.
The Judas Ladder
August 09, 2012
This tale involves a “clever” inmate. He enjoyed the respectable rung of bank robber, but found he had suddenly descended to approximately the level of a sex offender. The reason for his slippage was the inmate code, which demands allegiance to other inmates under virtually all circumstances. “Ratting out” a fellow inmate may cost one his life, or at the very least, result in a decidedly anxious, paranoid existence.
Severe Panic Disorder in a Middle-Aged Man
July 16, 2012
After scoring high on the Panic Disorder Severity Scale, this patient sought panic-focused psychodynamic therapy.
Exposure Therapy for Anxiety Disorders
September 06, 2011
Exposure-based therapies are highly effective for patients with anxiety disorders, to the extent that exposure should be considered a first-line, evidence-based treatment for such patients. In clinical practice, however, these treatments are underutilized, which highlights the need for additional dissemination and training.
Mixed States in Their Manifold Forms: Part 1
March 29, 2011
Mixed states constitute a wondrously variegated universe of psychopathology. These states are characterized by the intrusion of features characteristic of depression into states of hypomania or mania and the converse. Mixed states assume a myriad of forms that as a family may be among the most commonly encountered states of affective illness.