Cause of Panic Disorder

What cause of panic disorder? People with panic disorder or phobia have unusual activity on his or her hippocampus (area of the brain that process memory and emotion). Stress and anxiety could increase risk of experience of panic attack. For example, if a person experiences a racing heart during a panic attack, he or she may begin to associate this sensation with panic attacks. A rapid heartbeat, even if caused by exercise, he or she associate this rapid heart beat as a danger (for example dying from heart attack) and then may then trigger future panic attacks.