Case studies and clinical replication series: Panic attack associated with perceived heart rate acceleration: A case report

A patient with uncomplicated Panic Disorder (without any phobic avoidance behavior) responded to false feedback of a sudden increase in heart rate with an unequivocal panic attack. Together with findings of a high prevalence of palpitations in naturally occurring panic attacks, this occurrence has implications for the possible etiology of “spontaneous” panic attacks.

[1]  W. Roth,et al.  Sodium lactate infusions and panic attacks: a review and critique. , 1986, Psychosomatic medicine.

[2]  P. Salkovskis,et al.  Respiratory control as a treatment for panic attacks. , 1985, Journal of behavior therapy and experimental psychiatry.

[3]  G. Hibbert.  Ideational Components of Anxiety: Their Origin and Content , 1984, British Journal of Psychiatry.

[4]  E. Blanchard,et al.  The phenomenon of panic. , 1985, Journal of abnormal psychology.

[5]  W. Agras,et al.  Panic Attacks in the Natural Environmet , 1987, The Journal of nervous and mental disease.

[6]  E. Blanchard,et al.  Biofeedback and relaxation training with three kinds of headache: treatment effects and their prediction. , 1982, Journal of consulting and clinical psychology.

[7]  B. Maletzky.  "Assisted" covert sensitization in the treatment of exhibitionism. , 1974, Journal of consulting and clinical psychology.

[8]  A. Beck,et al.  Screening depressed patients in family practice. A rapid technic. , 1972, Postgraduate medicine.

[9]  W. Agras,et al.  Lactate infusions and panic attacks: Do patients and controls respond differently? , 1986, Psychiatry Research.

[10]  J. Price.  Anxiety Disorders and Phobias. A Cognitive Perspective . By Aaron T. Beck and Gary Emery. (Basic Books, New York, 1985.) , 1986, Journal of Biosocial Science.

[11]  D. Barlow.  A Psychological Model of Panic , 1986 .

[12]  E. Gracely,et al.  The Mobility Inventory for Agoraphobia. , 1985, Behaviour research and therapy.

[13]  M Lader,et al.  Physiological changes during spontaneous panic attacks. , 1970, Journal of psychosomatic research.

[14]  E. Blanchard,et al.  Psychophysiology of relaxation-associated panic attacks. , 1985, Journal of abnormal psychology.

[15]  R. Ley.  Agoraphobia, the panic attack and the hyperventilation syndrome , 1985 .

[16]  C. Spielberger,et al.  Manual for the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory , 1970 .