Panic Disorder: Keys to Management

Panic disorder is a tremendously vexing challenge: keys to its management include appropriate use of psychotropic medication and psychotherapy predicated on an understanding of the biopsychosocial underpinnings. In part 1 of this 2-part podcast series, Stephen V. Sobel, MD, sheds some light on the pathogenesis. (For Part 2, please click here).Dr Sobel is the author of the newly published book Successful Psychopharmacology: Evidence-Based Solutions for Achieving Remission, published by W.W.Norton and Company.He is also Clinical Instructor at UC San Diego School of Medicine; a consulting psychiatrist for the NFL San Diego Chargers; and an adult and adolescent psychiatrist in San Diego. He was a presenter at US Psychiatric and Mental Health Congress 2013.