{"id":220,"date":"2004-01-27T10:39:51","date_gmt":"2004-01-27T18:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2004\/01\/27\/maybe-it-is-all-in-your-head\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:17:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:17:15","slug":"maybe-it-is-all-in-your-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2004\/01\/27\/maybe-it-is-all-in-your-head\/","title":{"rendered":"Maybe It <em>Is<\/em> All In Your Head"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Panic disorder is an incredibly intrusive ailment that can up-end one&#8217;s life.  A recent study suggests it may result from abnormalities in the brain.  From <a href=\"http:\/\/query.nytimes.com\/mem\/tnt.html?tntget=2004\/01\/27\/health\/psychology\/27PANI.html&#038;tntemail1\">Panic Spells Are Traced to Chemical in the Brain<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nPeople with panic disorder, according to scientists at the National Institutes of Health, have drastic reductions of a type of serotonin receptor, called 5-HT1A, in three areas of the brain. The findings, reported last week in The Journal of Neuroscience, lend credence to the suspicion that serotonin dysfunction plays a role in the disorder.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This provides evidence for what we&#8217;ve been telling patients all along,&#8221; said Dr. Dennis S. Charney, chief of the mood and anxiety disorders research program at the institutes and an author of the paper. &#8220;Panic disorder is due to a specific abnormality in the brain, not a weakness in character.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Panic disorder is an incredibly intrusive ailment that can up-end one&#8217;s life. A recent study suggests it may result from abnormalities in the brain. From Panic Spells Are Traced to Chemical in the Brain: People with panic disorder, according to scientists at the National Institutes of Health, have drastic reductions of a type of serotonin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13112,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions\/13112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}