Effect of pregnancy on panic attacks
- 1 August 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Psychiatric Association Publishing in American Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 144 (8), 1078-1079
- https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.144.8.1078
Abstract
Three women with panic disorder showed marked improvement in their panic symptoms during pregnancy. Such effects might be due to pregnancy's blunting of the sympathoadrenal response to simple physiologic stimuli, effects on barbiturate receptors, or improvement in psychological functioning.This publication has 8 references indexed in Scilit:
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