Diurnal panic attacks with and without nocturnal panic attacks: are there some phenomenological differences?
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Diurnal panic attacks with and without nocturnal panic attacks: are there some phenomenological differences?
OBJECTIVE To compare nocturnal and diurnal panic attacks in a cross-sectional study and in a longitudinal prospective short-term follow-up. METHODS We selected 57 panic disorder (PD) subjects (DSM-IV) and rated them with the Panic Disorder Severity Scale (PDSS) at baseline and after 30 days of treatment with nortriptyline, and with the Eysenck Personality Inventory and the Brown Attention Def...
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عنوان ژورنال: Revista Brasileira de Psiquiatria
سال: 2005
ISSN: 1516-4446
DOI: 10.1590/s1516-44462005000300010