For example, the recently opened Tokyo Cyber Clinic is developing, with help from Waseda University, a virtual Tokyo subway (overcrowded for realism) to treat people who panic when surrounded or touched by others.

ECONOMIST: Monitor

People very frequently make panic sales when the market crashes.

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If the adrenalin response continues to fire off too regularly, then the body manufactures more, and eventually the mechanism fires off unexpectedly, which incidentally explains how people can have panic attacks at 2am in the morning when they should be asleep.

BBC: Stewing in your juices

If you elect treatment with an antidepressant, make sure that your clinician starts you on the lowest dose possible, because -- paradoxically -- antidepressants can cause panic attacks when they are first taken and can certainly worsen them in people already afflicted.

CNN: How can I control my panic attacks?

President NICOLAS SARKOZY (France): (Through Translator) When financial institutions have lost all credibility, markets are in chaos and panic reigns, people look to public institutions for a solution.

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Because the Supreme Court wisely understood that the Founders, in codifying these important rights, never intended them to be used to bring harm to the people in that theater when someone stupidly decides that it would be amusing or meet some perverse objective by causing a panic.

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