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THE PSYCHOBIOLOGICAL CORRELATES OF PANIC ATTACKS DURING IN VIVO EXPOSURE

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 September 1999

Nigar G. Khawaja
Affiliation:
Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
Tian P. S. Oei
Affiliation:
University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

Abstract

This study examined in detail the psychobiological correlates of panic attacks experienced in panic disorder with agoraphobia. The cognitions, affect, and physiology of the six patients were monitored during in vivo exposure to their phobic situations. The results from these case studies showed that catastrophic cognitions are the key component of panic attacks. However, there was no clear-cut evidence to support an interaction among cognitions, affect, and physiology, which has been postulated by cognitive theories to be the central component of panic attacks and panic disorder with agoraphobia.

Type
Clinical Section
Copyright
© 1999 British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies

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