Am J Psychiatry 1989; 146:1059-1060
Copyright © 1989 by American Psychiatric Association
Panic disorder in children at high risk for depression
DL Moreau, M Weissman and V Warner
Department of Psychiatry, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York.
While conventional clinical wisdom has been that panic disorder does not
occur in children, evidence derived from structured diagnostic interviews
suggests that panic disorder, similar in symptom pattern to the adult
disorder, does occur in children and can occur before puberty.