Decreased defensive reactivity to interoceptive threat after successful exposure-based psychotherapy in patients with panic disorder.

ABSTRACT: Panic disorder (PD) is characterized by a dysfunctional defensive responding to panic-related body symptoms that is assumed to contribute to the persistence of panic symptomatology. The present study aimed at examining whether this dysfunctional defensive reactivity to panic-related body symptoms would no longer be present following successful cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) but would persist when patients show insufficient symptom improvement. Therefore, in the present study, effects of CBT on reported symptoms and defensive response mobilization during interoceptive challenge were investigated using hyperventilation as a respiratory symptom provocation procedure. Changes in defensive mobilization to body symptoms in the course of CBT were investigated in patients with a primary diagnosi

SUBMITTER: Benke C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7969920 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature