title: Panic and posttraumatic stress disorder: implications for culture, risk, and treatment.
abstract: The articles in this special series reflect productive cross-fertilization between the fields of panic disorder and posttraumatic stress disorder. The purpose of this commentary is to elucidate the implications of this research for the broader themes of culture, risk factors, and treatment.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. rjm@wjh.harvard.edu
authors.forename: Richard J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: McNally
mesh_terms: D001007:Anxiety / Q000523:psychology; D015897:Comorbidity; D003466:Cultural Characteristics; D003887:Desensitization, Psychologic / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D016584:Panic Disorder / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000208:ethnology / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy; D012307:Risk Factors; D013313:Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000208:ethnology / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy