Panic Disorder: Clinical Diagnosis, Management and Mechanisms

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Panic Disorder: Clinical Diagnosis, Management and Mechanisms Edited by Dávid J Nutt, James C Ballenger and Jean-Pierre Lépine Panic is now recognized as one of the major anxiety disorders with a huge impact on the personal health of sufferers as well as on their families and society and is now one of the most active areas of research for psychiatrists and psychoiogists. Somé of the concepts to emerge have produced significant shifts in both biological and psychological fields. This landmark text brings together an international team covering all key areas of panic disorder. Designed for everyone in the field, it presents somé növel and important new discoveries for biological research together with comprehensive up-to-date information for the diagnosis and treatment for the practising clinician. Contents Epidemiology, comorbidity and genetics of panic disorder • Panic disorder: clinical course, etiology and prognosis • Health economic aspects of panic disorder • Brain mechanisms... Tovább

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Panic Disorder: Clinical Diagnosis, Management and Mechanisms Edited by Dávid J Nutt, James C Ballenger and Jean-Pierre Lépine Panic is now recognized as one of the major anxiety disorders with a huge impact on the personal health of sufferers as well as on their families and society and is now one of the most active areas of research for psychiatrists and psychoiogists. Somé of the concepts to emerge have produced significant shifts in both biological and psychological fields. This landmark text brings together an international team covering all key areas of panic disorder. Designed for everyone in the field, it presents somé növel and important new discoveries for biological research together with comprehensive up-to-date information for the diagnosis and treatment for the practising clinician. Contents Epidemiology, comorbidity and genetics of panic disorder • Panic disorder: clinical course, etiology and prognosis • Health economic aspects of panic disorder • Brain mechanisms and circuits in panic disorder • The current status of respiration in panic disorder • Psychological theories of panic disorder • Medical aspects of panic disorder and its relationship to other medical conditions • Treatment of panic disorder with tricyclics and MAOIs • The treatment of panic disorder with benzodiazepines • Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) in panic disorder • Other drug treatments and augmentation therapies for panic disorder • Psychological treatment of panic disorder • Overview and future prospects. Dávid J Nutt, DM, MRCP, FRCPsych is Professor of Psychopharmacology and Head of the Department of Clinical Medicine at the University of Bristol. He is President of the British Association of Psychopharmacology. He is co-author of Seminars in Basic Neurosciences (1998) and editor of the Iournal of Psychopharmacology. James C Ballenger, MD is Director of the Institute of Psychiatry and Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston. He alsó serves as Executive Director of the Center for Drug and Alcohol Programs at MUSC. He is the editor of The Biology of Agoraphobia (1987), Neurobiology of Panic (1990) and the Yearbook of Psychiatry and Applied Mentái Health (1995, 1996, 1997, 1998). lean-Pierre Lépine, MD is Professor of Psychiatry at the Université Denis Diderot and Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at Lariboisiére Fernand Widal Hospitál, Assistance Publique - Höpitaux de Paris in Paris. His most recent publications include contributions to Clinical Management of Anxiety (1997) and various psychiatric journals. MARTIN DUNITZ Vissza