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Clinical Types and Outcomes of Panic Disorder
Author(s) -
Takeuchi Tatsuo,
Hayashi Ryosuke,
Nemoto Toyomi,
Hasegawa Masahiko,
Tomiyama Gakujin,
Ikeda Masatoshi,
Hanazawa Hisashi
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
psychiatry and clinical neurosciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.609
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1440-1819
pISSN - 1323-1316
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-1819.1994.tb03081.x
Subject(s) - panic disorder , neuroticism , panic , psychiatry , psychology , clinical psychology , concomitant , outcome (game theory) , medicine , anxiety , personality , social psychology , mathematics , mathematical economics
Two hundred and ten subjects with panic disorder were studied and classified into four clinical types according to symptomatology and clinical courses. The outcomes of 181 of these subjects were categorized in three ways (good, fair, or poor). Through an examination of the relationship between these clinical types and categories of outcome, it was found that the subjects with little or no “neurotization” had a favorable outcome, while those with remarkable “neurotization” or with comorbid depressive states had an unfavorable outcome. It is suggested that concomitant “neurotic” symptoms, such as somatoform symptoms, as well as concomitance of depressive states, predict an unfavorable outcome of panic disorder.