[Panic disorder: psychoneurologic nexus].

The author demonstrates on panic disorders which are at present the most frequently investigated mental affection, problems of mutual psychiatric and neurological associations ensuing from the pathophysiology of the disorder. Panic disorders are a neurobiological process which develops on pathogenetically defined coordinates of a system formed by the locus coeruleus--the limbic apparatus--the cortex. The authors reminded of the debts of psychiatry (in particular neurology) in our regions as regards the medical identification and exploration of this exceptional disease.