Science News about Panic Disorder

Half of Adults With Anxiety Disorders Had Psychiatric Diagnoses in Youth

February 7, 2007 • Science Update
About half of adults with an anxiety disorder had symptoms of some type of psychiatric illness by age 15, a NIMH-funded study shows.

Emotion-Regulating Protein Lacking in Panic Disorder

January 20, 2004 • Press Release
Three brain areas of panic disorder patients are lacking in a key component of a chemical messenger system that regulates emotion, researchers at the NIH’s National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) have discovered.

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