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Sign in to saveAlso known as panic anxiety syndrome, PD
anxiety disorder characterized by reoccurring unexpected panic attacks
Key facts
- Specialty
- Psychiatry , clinical psychology
- Symptoms
- Sudden periods of intense fear , palpitations , sweating, shaking, shortness of breath , numbness
- Usual onset
- Sudden and recurrent
- Causes
- Unknown
- Risk factors
- Family history, smoking , psychological stress , history of child abuse
- Diagnostic method
- Based on symptoms after ruling out other potential causes
- Differential diagnosis
- Heart disease , hyperthyroidism , drug use
- Treatment
- Counselling , medications
- Medication
- Antidepressants , benzodiazepines , beta blockers
- Frequency
- 2.5% of people at some point
via Wikipedia infobox
Research
14,479 papers- Brain Mechanisms Underlying Panic Attack and Panic Disorder.Neuroscience bulletin · 2024
- Panic disorder.Lancet (London, England) · 2006
- Panic disorder.Current psychiatry reports · 2001
- Panic disorder.American family physician · 1995
- [Panic disorder and agoraphobia: understanding and therapy].Fortschritte der Neurologie-Psychiatrie · 2025
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- mental disorder
- Subclass of
- disease
- Image
- Panic attack.jpg
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- NCI Thesaurus ID
- C34890
- health specialty
- psychiatry
- ICPC 2 ID
- P74
- drug or therapy used for treatment
- nordazepam
- exact match
- purl.obolibrary.org/obo/DOID_594
- genetic association
- TNFRSF21
- Commons category
- Panic disorder
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- WikiProject Medicine
- symptoms and signs
- panic attack
- possible treatment
- cognitive behavioral therapy
- short name
- PD
Sources (11)
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