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Late-life onset of panic disorder with agoraphobia in three patients. 1989

D J Luchins, and R P Rose

Department of Psychiatry, Pritzker School of Medicine, University of Chicago, IL 60637.

Although the onset of panic disorder with agoraphobia is usually thought to occur in early adulthood, the authors describe three cases in which onset occurred after age 65.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D010200	Panic	A state of extreme acute, intense anxiety and unreasoning fear accompanied by disorganization of personality function.	Panics
D010698	Phobic Disorders	Anxiety disorders in which the essential feature is persistent and irrational fear of a specific object, activity, or situation that the individual feels compelled to avoid. The individual recognizes the fear as excessive or unreasonable.	Claustrophobia,Neuroses, Phobic,Phobia, School,Phobias,Phobic Neuroses,Scolionophobia,Disorder, Phobic,Phobia,Phobic Disorder,School Phobia
D005239	Fear	The affective response to an actual current external danger which subsides with the elimination of the threatening condition.	Threat Cues,Threat Sensitivity,Cue, Threat,Fears,Sensitivity, Threat,Threat Cue,Threat Sensitivities
D005260	Female		Females
D006801	Humans	Members of the species Homo sapiens.	Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D000368	Aged	A person 65 years of age or older. For a person older than 79 years, AGED, 80 AND OVER is available.	Elderly
D000369	Aged, 80 and over	Persons 80 years of age and older.	Oldest Old
D000375	Aging	The gradual irreversible changes in structure and function of an organism that occur as a result of the passage of time.	Senescence,Aging, Biological,Biological Aging
D000379	Agoraphobia	Obsessive, persistent, intense fear of places or situations from which escape might be difficult or embarrassing.	Phobia, Crowds,Phobia, Open Spaces,Crowds Phobia,Open Spaces Phobia