Grunhaus L, Birmaher B
J Clin Psychopharmacol. 1985 Apr;5(2):93-9. doi: 10.1097/00004714-198504000-00007.
Current psychiatric nosologies associate recurrent panic attacks mainly with panic disorder, and agoraphobia with panic attacks, circumscribing their clinical relevance to the anxiety group of diagnosis. Through selected clinical presentations and a literature review the authors propose the existence of a cross-syndromal panic-anxiety represented by the recurrent panic attack that crosses the borders of any single group of diagnosis. This concept is of relevance for clinical psychiatry and may also constitute an important source of variance in psychiatric research.
当前的精神疾病分类学将反复出现的惊恐发作主要与惊恐障碍相关联，而广场恐惧症与惊恐发作相关联，将它们的临床相关性局限于焦虑症诊断组。通过特定的临床表现和文献综述，作者提出存在一种由反复出现的惊恐发作所代表的跨综合征惊恐-焦虑，它跨越了任何单一诊断组的界限。这一概念对临床精神病学具有重要意义，也可能构成精神病学研究中一个重要的变异来源。
