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Clinical subtypes in panic disorder: Their descriptive and prospective validity

1986; Elsevier BV; Volume: 11; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/0165-0327(86)90015-7

1573-2517

R. Buller, Wolfgang Maier, Otto Benkert,

Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development

In a sample of 97 patients with panic attacks, presence of agoraphobia was associated with a more severe syndrome of panic anxiety both at index assessment and during one-year follow-up but was not associated with increased incidence of major depression. Groups with a history of depression — primary or secondary to the onset of panic — did not differ from the group without depression when severity of anxiety was concerned but were more severely impaired and had a higher incidence of further depressive episodes during follow-up. For future classification of panic disorder, subtypes defined according to associated syndromes of agoraphobia or depression are proposed, since these conditios appear constant through foloow-up.