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THE PSYCHOBIOLOGICAL CORRELATES OF PANIC ATTACKS DURING IN VIVO EXPOSURE

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 September 1999

Nigar G. Khawaja  and
Tian P. S. Oei
Nigar G. Khawaja
Affiliation:
Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
Tian P. S. Oei
Affiliation:
University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
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Abstract

This study examined in detail the psychobiological correlates of panic attacks experienced in panic disorder with agoraphobia. The cognitions, affect, and physiology of the six patients were monitored during in vivo exposure to their phobic situations. The results from these case studies showed that catastrophic cognitions are the key component of panic attacks. However, there was no clear-cut evidence to support an interaction among cognitions, affect, and physiology, which has been postulated by cognitive theories to be the central component of panic attacks and panic disorder with agoraphobia.

Keywords

Panic attackspsychobiologicalin vivoexposurepanic disorderagoraphobia
Type
Clinical Section
Information
Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy , Volume 27 , Issue 4 , September 1999 , pp. 353 - 367
Copyright
© 1999 British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies

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