Anxiety attacks in a patient with a right temporal lobe meningioma.

The role of neurologic factors leading to the appearance of anxiety attacks is incompletely understood. The case of a 69-year-old woman with no previous psychiatric illness who began to experience frequent anxiety attacks is described. These attacks were later associated with depersonalization and visual perceptual disturbances. The symptoms disappeared following the discovery and removal of a right temporal lobe meningioma.