Psychopathology in Children of Patients with Panic Disorder or Animal Phobia

Unnewehr, Suzan; Schneider, Silvia; Florin, Irmela; Margraf, Jürgen

doi:10.1159/000029026

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“…separation anxiety disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, social anxiety disorder). These results are reported in detail in Unnewehr et al [39] .…”

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Attention Bias in Children of Patients with Panic Disorder

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Cognitive models of panic disorder have emphasized the role of cognitive distortions in the maintenance of this disorder. Several studies have produced results consistent with this hypothesis, but it is still unclear whether cognitive biases precede anxiety disorders or whether they are a consequence of the disorder. In the present study, we compared children of individuals with panic disorder, children of individuals with animal phobia, and children of normal controls with respect to attentional bias with an emotional Stroop task, which included three types of words: panic-relevant, animal phobia-relevant, and neutral words. Our results revealed that children of panic patients did not show an attentional bias for panic-relevant stimuli. Results will be discussed in the context of theoretical models explaining the etiological factor of cognitive biases for the development of anxiety disorders.

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“…separation anxiety disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, social anxiety disorder). These results are reported in detail in Unnewehr et al [39] .…”

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Attention Bias in Children of Patients with Panic Disorder

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“…In the present study, the mean score obtained by children with separation anxiety on items of SCARED was relatively low (2.4=1.7). Although some studies have found an excess of separation anxiety in offspring of adult panic disorder subjects [Unnewehr et al, 1998], others have questioned this association between separation anxiety and adult panic disorder [Biederman et al, 2001]. Yet, another reason for a lack of relationship between heart rate variability and childhood anxiety symptoms could be due to the relatively high cholinergic modulation of cardiac activity among children [Yeragani et al, 1994a], but one could debate that this is more of a reason to find significant differences in this age group.…”

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“…In addition, a higher rate of separation anxiety disorder was observed among children of patients with panic disorder as compared to children of parents with animal phobia who had a higher rate of phobic disorders [Unnewehr et al, 1998]. In another study of high-risk children, Biederman et al [2001] reported that parental panic disorder regardless of comorbidity with major depression conferred a greater risk for panic disorder and agoraphobia in the offspring.…”

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Decreased chaos of heart rate time series in children of patients with panic disorder

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This study examined the differences of heart rate variability measures between children of parents with panic disorder and children of healthy controls using linear as well as nonlinear techniques. Supine and standing heart rate variability indices were measured in all children using power spectral analysis and a measure of chaos, the largest Lyapunov exponent (LLE) of heart rate time series. No significant differences emerged between the children of panic disorder parents and children of normal controls on any of the spectral heart rate variability measures. However, children of patients with panic disorder had significantly lower LLE of heart rate time series in supine posture, suggesting a relative decrease of cardiac vagal function in this group of children. This suggests a possible heritable effect of certain measures of heart rate variability, as previous studies showed decreased heart rate variability in patients with panic disorder using spectral as well as nonlinear techniques. Recent evidence also suggests that some of these nonlinear measures are superior or of additional value to the traditional time and frequency domain measures of heart rate variability to predict serious ventricular arrhythmias and sudden death.

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“…Aufgrund der familiären Häufung von Ängsten [Überblick bei Schneider, 1995;Unnewehr et al, 1998], ist es für eine erfolgreiche Behandlung des Kindes oft sinnvoll, die Eltern in die Angstbehandlung einzubeziehen. Windheuser [1977] und Barrett et al [1996] …”

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Verhaltenstherapie bei Trennungsängsten und Phobien im Kindesalter

Schneider¹

2000

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Fears in childhood are very common, whereas only a small number of children develop anxiety disorders. This article reviews symptomatology, prevalence and course as well as cognitive-behavioral treatment procedures for the most important childhood anxiety disorders «separation anxiety» and «phobias». Mechanisms and proceeding of the following methods are reported: systematic desensitization, exposure, modeling, and cognitive-behavioral programs. A detailed practical guideline of diagnostic and therapeutic procedures will be given.

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Psychopathology in Children of Patients with Panic Disorder or Animal Phobia

Cited by 41 publications

References 31 publications

Attention Bias in Children of Patients with Panic Disorder

Attention Bias in Children of Patients with Panic Disorder

Decreased chaos of heart rate time series in children of patients with panic disorder

Verhaltenstherapie bei Trennungsängsten und Phobien im Kindesalter

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