Treatment of a child with nocturnal panic attacks

Volume: 4 Number: 3 October 8, 2014
  • Onur Burak Dursun
  • Semiha Arslan
  • Hüseyin Tan
  • Ömer Özden
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Treatment of a child with nocturnal panic attacks

Abstract

Nocturnal panic attack is characterized by sudden awakening from sleep followed by the classical symptoms of panic disorder. Although it occurs nearly in half of adult panic disorder cases, little is known about occurrence and treatment in childhood. In this paper, we present a 12 years old girl, hospitalized in the paediatric inpatient unit for her nocturnal seizures; consulted to child and adolescent psychiatry department during management; diagnosed as panic disorder and recovered with sertraline. Nocturnal panic attack is one of the main causes of non-epileptic seizures that would benefit from psychiatric treatment options and has to be considered in differential diagnosis of nocturnal paroxysmal events.

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Onur Burak Dursun This is me

Semiha Arslan This is me

Hüseyin Tan This is me

Ömer Özden This is me

Publication Date

October 8, 2014

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October 8, 2014

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Year 1970 Volume: 4 Number: 3

APA
Dursun, O. B., Arslan, S., Tan, H., & Özden, Ö. (2014). Uykuda panik atakları olan bir çocuk ve tedavi süreci. Journal of Mood Disorders, 4(3), 133-5. https://doi.org/10.5455/jmood.20140217104456
AMA
1.Dursun OB, Arslan S, Tan H, Özden Ö. Uykuda panik atakları olan bir çocuk ve tedavi süreci. Journal of Mood Disorders. 2014;4(3):133-5. doi:10.5455/jmood.20140217104456
Chicago
Dursun, Onur Burak, Semiha Arslan, Hüseyin Tan, and Ömer Özden. 2014. “Uykuda Panik Atakları Olan Bir çocuk Ve Tedavi Süreci”. Journal of Mood Disorders 4 (3): 133-5. https://doi.org/10.5455/jmood.20140217104456.
EndNote
Dursun OB, Arslan S, Tan H, Özden Ö (March 1, 2014) Uykuda panik atakları olan bir çocuk ve tedavi süreci. Journal of Mood Disorders 4 3 133–5.
IEEE
[1]O. B. Dursun, S. Arslan, H. Tan, and Ö. Özden, “Uykuda panik atakları olan bir çocuk ve tedavi süreci”, Journal of Mood Disorders, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 133–5, Mar. 2014, doi: 10.5455/jmood.20140217104456.
ISNAD
Dursun, Onur Burak - Arslan, Semiha - Tan, Hüseyin - Özden, Ömer. “Uykuda Panik Atakları Olan Bir çocuk Ve Tedavi Süreci”. Journal of Mood Disorders 4/3 (March 1, 2014): 133-5. https://doi.org/10.5455/jmood.20140217104456.
JAMA
1.Dursun OB, Arslan S, Tan H, Özden Ö. Uykuda panik atakları olan bir çocuk ve tedavi süreci. Journal of Mood Disorders. 2014;4:133–5.
MLA
Dursun, Onur Burak, et al. “Uykuda Panik Atakları Olan Bir çocuk Ve Tedavi Süreci”. Journal of Mood Disorders, vol. 4, no. 3, Mar. 2014, pp. 133-5, doi:10.5455/jmood.20140217104456.
Vancouver
1.Onur Burak Dursun, Semiha Arslan, Hüseyin Tan, Ömer Özden. Uykuda panik atakları olan bir çocuk ve tedavi süreci. Journal of Mood Disorders. 2014 Mar. 1;4(3):133-5. doi:10.5455/jmood.20140217104456