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Panic disorder in children at high risk for depression

Published Online:https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.146.8.1059

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.

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