News - Panic Attacks
The launch of this “Anxiety Reduction Zen Meditation†program couldn’t be timelier, announces a noted California anxiety doctor.
The portion of our brains that is responsible for registering fear and even panic has a built-in chemical sensor that is triggered by a primordial terror – suffocation.
Breathing carbon dioxide can trigger panic attacks, but the biological reason for this effect has not been understood.
Panic attacks have been linked to higher risk of heart attack and heart disease, especially in younger people, British researchers said. The study, published in the European Heart Journal, found that people who were younger than age 50 when first diagnosed had a significantly higher risk of subsequent heart attacks, or myocardial infarctions, but this was not the case in older people. The study found there was a significantly higher incidence of subsequent coronary heart disease in people diagnosed with panic attacks/disorder at all ages, but this was more marked in those under age 50. However, the research also showed that the risk of dying from coronary heart disease was actually reduced among people of all ages who had been diagnosed with panic attacks/disorder. The study involved 404,654 people in Britain selected from a primary care population that can be broadly generalized to other countries with a similar socio-demographic structure. Not much is known about the relationship bet
