Panic Disorder: Neurobiological and Treatment Aspects

✍ Scribed by Antonio Egidio Nardi, Rafael Christophe R Freire (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 323
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The book focuses on the neurobiological and treatment aspects of panic disorder. It describes the most recent research data and pharmacological therapeutic aspects of panic disorder. The biochemical, respiratory, imaging, and translational aspects will be together with diagnostic and pharmacological discussion. We have the collaboration of important and recognized researchers from various countries – Brazil, USA, Italy, Spain, United Kingdom, and Switzerland – all of them with a continuous and relevant work on anxiety disorders. "Panic Disorder: Neurobiological and Treatment Aspects" is intended to be a reference book for those who research or treat panic disorder and anxiety disorder patients.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxi
The Panic Disorder Concept: A Historical Perspective....Pages 1-8
A Neural Systems Approach to the Study of the Respiratory-Type Panic Disorder....Pages 9-77
The Hippocampus and Panic Disorder: Evidence from Animal and Human Studies....Pages 79-91
Panic Disorder, Is It Really a Mental Disorder? From Body Functions to the Homeostatic Brain....Pages 93-112
Staging of Panic Disorder: Implications for Neurobiology and Treatment....Pages 113-125
Panic Disorder Respiratory Subtype....Pages 127-138
Lifelong Opioidergic Vulnerability Through Early Life Separation: A Recent Extension of the False Suffocation Alarm Theory of Panic Disorder....Pages 139-149
Circadian Rhythm in Panic Disorder....Pages 151-159
Some Genetic Aspects of Panic Disorder....Pages 161-167
Panic Disorder and Personality Disorder Comorbidity....Pages 169-184
Possible Mechanisms Linking Panic Disorder and Cardiac Syndromes....Pages 185-202
Panic Disorder and Cardiovascular Death: What Is Beneath?....Pages 203-209
Pulmonary Embolism in the Setting of Panic Attacks....Pages 211-216
Self-Consciousness and Panic....Pages 217-222
Pharmacological Treatment with the Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors....Pages 223-236
Benzodiazepines in Panic Disorder....Pages 237-253
Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in Panic Disorder....Pages 255-269
Exercise in Panic Disorder: Implications for Disorder Maintenance, Treatment and Physical Health....Pages 271-287
Pharmacological Treatment of Panic Disorder with Non-Selective Drugs....Pages 289-301
Back Matter....Pages 303-312

✦ Subjects

Psychiatry; Neurosciences; Clinical Psychology