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Therapeutic options in panic disorder

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 April 2020

HGM Westenberg
HGM Westenberg*
Affiliation:
Department of Biological Psychiatry, Academic Hospital Utrecht, PO Box 85500, Utrecht, NL-3508, The Netherlands
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The principal management strategy for patients with panic attacks and agoraphobia has traditionally been behavioural therapy, but the delineation of panic disorder as a distinct diagnostic entity has stimulated psychopharmacological research on this psychiatric condition. As a result, the treatment of panic disorder has diversified. Effective pharmacological treatment of this disorder began with the antidepressant imipramine, but today a wide variety of efficacious agents are available for treating the symptoms of panic disorder. The four primary classes of agents for panic disorder are the tricyclic antidepressants (TCAs), the serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), the monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs) and the high-potency benzodiazepines (BZs). Effective non-pharmacological treatments are primarily behavioural, although cognitive approaches have also been shown to be successful.

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Research Article
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European Psychiatry , Volume 10 , Issue S2: Satellite Symposium to the 7th Congress of the Association of European Psychiatrists , 1995 , pp. 67s - 70s
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Copyright © Elsevier, Paris 1995

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