Panic attacks and the dexamethasone suppression test
- 1 August 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Psychiatric Association Publishing in American Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 140 (8) , 1063-1064
- https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.140.8.1063
Abstract
Of 51 patients with panic attacks, 11.8% (7.8% with a correction factor) had a positive dexamethasone suppression test. This is significantly lower than the rate for melancholia. This difference suggests that panic attacks and major depression may be associated with different biological mechanisms.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
- A Specific Laboratory Test for the Diagnosis of MelancholiaArchives of General Psychiatry, 1981