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Growth hormone response to clonidine in panic disorder patients
M Schittecatte1, G Charles, Y Depauw
1Department of Psychiatry, Vincent Van Gogh Hospital, Marchienne-au-Pont, Belgium.
Psychiatry Research
|February 1, 1988
Abstract:
The growth hormone (GH) response to clonidine administration (2 micrograms/kg) was compared in three groups of subjects: seven panic disorder patients, seven depressed patients matched for age and sex, and seven normal controls. As previously reported, patients with affective disorders show a blunted GH response to clonidine. Only one panic disorder patient had a blunted GH response to clonidine, and this patient had recently received a tricyclic antidepressant.