Vagal control of the heart decreases during increasing imminence of interoceptive threat in patients with panic disorder and agoraphobia

Vagal control of the heart decreases during increasing imminence of interoceptive threat in patients with panic disorder and agoraphobia

Abstract Theoretically, panic disorder and agoraphobia pathology can be conceptualized as a cascade of dynamically changing defensive responses to threat cues from inside the body. Guided by this trans-diagnostic model we tested the interaction between defensive activation and vagal control as a mar...

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Main Authors: Jan Richter, Anne Pietzner, Julian Koenig, Julian F. Thayer, Christiane A. Pané-Farré, Alexander L. Gerlach, Andrew T. Gloster, Hans-Ulrich Wittchen, Thomas Lang, Georg W. Alpers, Sylvia Helbig-Lang, Jürgen Deckert, Thomas Fydrich, Lydia Fehm, Andreas Ströhle, Tilo Kircher, Volker Arolt, Alfons O. Hamm
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-04-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-86867-y

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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-86867-y

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