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Panic Attacks and Other Dissociative Disorders

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Panic disorder (PD) is one of the most common anxiety disorders. According to the Epidemiologic Catchment Area (ECA) study, PD affects around 2 % of the adult population (Markowitz et al. 1989). Panic attacks can be disabling and may lead to agoraphobia with devastating psychosocial and economic consequences. The identification of the etiology of these attacks is important for the proper management of the disorder.

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    Nash N. Boutros

  2. The Center for Behavioral Medicine, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine (UMKC), 1000 East 24th Street, Kansas, MO, 64108, USA

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Boutros, N.N. (2013). Panic Attacks and Other Dissociative Disorders. In: Standard EEG: A Research Roadmap for Neuropsychiatry. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04444-6_8

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