Psychiatria pre prax 2/2004

PANIC DISORDER IN CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS – PART 1: FUNDAMENTALS OF PRESENT CONCEPT AND EPIDEMIOLOGY

In the introduction of the review article the authors remind of general conception of panic disorder and problems of its application on children and adolescent age. They make a survey of epidemiological data about the occurrence of panic disorder both in retrospective studies in adults and in clinical and normative studies of children and adolescent population.

Keywords: panic disorder, agoraphobia, children, adolescents.