Sharon O. Davies

TL;DR: Overall, the findings support the responsivity of social phobia to monoamine oxidase inhibitors to phenelzine.

TL;DR: Findings provide support for the use of the Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale for the identification of individuals with SAD and its generalized subtype in clinical settings and should increase the percentage of these patients who receive appropriate treatment for this impairing disorder.

TL;DR: Lactate-induced panic attacks were regularly accompanied by biological changes consistent with hyperventilation and central noradrenergic activation and irregularly by elevation of plasma norepinephrine and cortisol levels.

TL;DR: It is suggested that lactate acts, by as yet unidentified mechanisms, to trigger the same panic attacks as occur spontaneously in vulnerable persons.

TL;DR: The results support the validity of prepubertal-onset depressive illness as a diagnostic category, and are consistent with high familial rates of MDD and other psychiatric disorders found in family studies of adolescent and early-onsets adult probands with major affective disorders, and with studies of the offspring of parents with major Affective disorders.