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New perspective on the pathophysiology of panic: merging serotonin and opioids in the periaqueductal gray

Panic disorder patients are vulnerable to recurrent panic attacks. Two neurochemical hypotheses have been proposed to explain this susceptibility. The first assumes that panic patients have deficient serotonergic inhibition of neurons localized in the dorsal periaqueductal gray matter of the midbrai...

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Autor principal: Graeff, F.G.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3854168/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22437485
http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0100-879X2012007500036