Respiratory Panic Disorder Treatment with Clonidine
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Clonidine in respiratory panic disorder subtype.
OBJECTIVE Clonidine, which inhibits locus coeruleus discharge, would seem for theoretical reasons to be a good antipanic drug. Panic disorder (PD) presents a heterogeneous cluster of symptoms and a classification based on subtypes has been suggested and the respiratory symptoms group appears as a distinct subtype. METHOD We report three cases of respiratory PD patients who were successfully t...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry
سال: 2004
ISSN: 0706-7437,1497-0015
DOI: 10.1177/070674370404900217