Cardiac awareness before and after cognitive-behavioral treatment for panic disorder

Recent cognitive-behavioral theories of panic disorder (PD) suggest that PD patients experience heightened anxiety over, and hypervigilance for, specific physical sensations. Researchers have recently begun to examine whether PD patients evidence heightened interoceptive awareness, relative to normals, with inconclusive results. The present study examined changes in cardiac awareness in 15 PD patients following cognitive-behavioral treatment. …