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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
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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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