Invitation to my Grand Rounds Talk at Mount Sinai, Wednesday, October 9, 2013, 8am

Please join us for our next Neurology Grand Rounds on Wednesday, October 9th at 8 AM in Davis Auditorium (Hess Center for Science and Medicine) at 1470 Madison Ave between 101st and 102nd streets. Refreshments will be served at 7:30 AM so please feel free to arrive early.

Title: “Panic, Separation Anxiety, Suffocation False Alarms and Endogenous Opioids: Can panic research inform clinical neurology?”

Presenter: Dr. Maurice Preter, MD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry,
Columbia’s College of Physicians and Surgeons;
Associate Professor of Neurology (Adj.),
SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY
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Flatworms Recall Familiar Environs, Even after Losing Their Heads: Scientific American

Flatworms Recall Familiar Environs, Even after Losing Their Heads: Scientific American. Highly recommended reading. As it turns out, one does not have to go all the way down the evolutionary ladder to be reminded that even brain-impaired or brain-damaged individuals … Continue reading

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North Shore-Lenox Hill Hospital Neurology Grand Rounds on May 21, 2013 Topic: Panic, Separation Anxiety, Suffocation False Alarms and Endogenous Opioids: How panic research can inform clinical neurology.

I will be giving North Shore-Lenox Hill Hospital Neurology Grand Rounds on May 21, 2013 – all invited! Topic:    Panic, Separation Anxiety, Suffocation False Alarms and Endogenous Opioids: How panic research can inform clinical neurology.  Speaker:  Maurice Preter, MD Date:          5/21/2013 … Continue reading

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Panic Developments – An Interesting Editorial by Donald F. Klein in the Revista Brasileira de Psiquiatria

Revista Brasileira de Psiquiatria 2012;34(Supl1):S01-S04 Panic Developments This editorial permits personal conclusions and questions, hoping to stimulate relevant research. Klein, in 1959, serendipitously found that imipramine blocked the apparently spontaneous panic attack in non-depressed inpatients, later considered agoraphobic.Later it was … Continue reading

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An endogenous opioid deficiency/expanded suffocation false alarm theory model of panic disorder.

These are the slides from my  talk at the First International Symposium on Translational Models of Panic Disorder. Vitoria, ES, Brazil, November 16-18, 2012.

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