Panic Disorder

... Body of work - Alternative Health - Health And Fitness - smh.com.au NEWS register www.smh.com.au FITNESS NUTRITION RELATIONSHIPS MIND MATTERS ALTERNATIVE HEALTH Body of work Email Print Normal font Large font March 9, 2006 Reconnecting body and soul can help overcome many ailments, writes Megan Gressor.

Blame it on Rene Descartes, the 17th-century philosopher whose maxim "cogito ergo sum" (I think, therefore I am) spawned an ongoing dualism between mind and body in Western thought, with cultures like our own seeing them as almost unconnected entities.

This thinking even pervades psychological practice, with many therapists focusing on what's between the ears, rarely venturing below the neck.

It's as though we are disembodied intellects, with the body tagging along for the ride, impervious to anything going on upstairs.

"The conventional thinking is that the brain is the command centre and as long as the body behaves itself, everything is fine," says Meredith Kitson, a somatic psychotherapist based in Seaforth.

And when the body stops behaving - demanding its owner's attention with so-called psychosomatic problems for which ...

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...ba href=/panic disorder/a/b, and prescribed paroxetine hydrochloride hydrate; the attacks gradually, but not completely, ameliorated.

She was referred to our department in October 2004, and from typical clinical features was diagnosed as having Parkinson’s disease.

Her parkinsonism was not drug induced because parkinsonian symptoms preceded the drug prescriptions such as paroxetine hydrochloride hydrate.

L-dopa rapidly improved her resting tremor, rigidity and parkinsonian gait.

L-dopa also ameliorated the residual panic attacks.

Many patients, in the later and complicated stages of Parkinson’s disease, complain of symptoms like tachycardia, dyspnea, flushing, anxiety, fear, dizziness and sweating; sometimes these symptoms appear suddenly and together.

The clinical features of these crises fulfill DSM–IV criteria for ba href=/panic disorder/a/b, excluding one item: the panic attacks are not due to the direct physiological effects of a substance or a general medical condition.

Vázquez used the term "panic-disorder like states."1 Panic attacks in Parkinson’s disease are reported to represent a long-term complication of L-dopa therapy.1,2Among patients with the on-off phenomenon, panic attacks usually occur during the off period.2 A fall in dopaminergic action on striatal receptors could induce a disinhibition of the firing rate of the locus coeruleus and consequently an increase of central noradrenergic transmission, which hypothetically would elicit the panic attacks.1 How...