[Panic, somatization and exercise].
Somatizations are present in many psychiatric disorders including anxiety and affective disorders, somatoform disorders and several personality disorders. Panic attacks are one of the most typical examples of somatizations: they are characterized by a focusing of attention towards physiological arousal signals and by a pathological interpretation of them as indicating an imminent danger or a serious sickness. Regular physical activity is associated with decreasing somatization, probably through adaptive mechanisms of serotonergic circuits implicated in anxiety and nociception regulation.
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Institut de Psychiatrie, C.H.U. Brugmann.
D001007:Anxiety / Q000517:prevention & control; D015444:Exercise; D006801:Humans; D016584:Panic Disorder / Q000517:prevention & control*; D012701:Serotonin / Q000502:physiology; D013001:Somatoform Disorders / Q000517:prevention & control*
D012701:Serotonin