Category Archives: Affective Neuroscience

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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Daily social interactions that are negative and competitive are associated prospectively with heightened proinflammatory cytokine activity.

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2012 Feb 7;109(6):1878-82. Epub 2012 Jan 23. Negative and competitive social interactions are related to heightened proinflammatory cytokine activity. Chiang JJ, Eisenberger NI, Seeman TE, Taylor SE. Source Department of Psychology, David Geffen … Continue reading

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Social pain–the painful feelings associated with social disconnection–rely on some of the same neurobiological substrates that underlie experiences of physical pain

Nat Rev Neurosci. 2012 May 3;13(6):421-34. doi: 10.1038/nrn3231. The pain of social disconnection: examining the shared neural underpinnings of physical and social pain. Eisenberger NI. Source University of California, Department of Psychology, 4444 Franz Hall, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA. … 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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Inflammation is the common link among the leading causes of death.

Psychosom Med. 2010 May;724:365-9. Epub 2010 Apr 21. Stress, food, and inflammation: psychoneuroimmunology and nutrition at the cutting edge. Kiecolt-Glaser JK. Department of Psychiatry, The Ohio State Institute for Behavioral Medicine Research, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, … Continue reading

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Maurice Preter, MD

Maurice Preter, MD is a European and U.S. educated psychiatrist, psychotherapist, psychopharmacologist, neurologist, and medical-legal expert in private practice in Manhattan. He is also the principal of Fifth Avenue Concierge Medicine, PLLC, a medical concierge service and health advisory for select individuals and families.