[Panic, somatization and exercise].

Somatizations are present in many psychiatric disorders including anxiety and affective disorders, somatoform disorders and several personality disorders. Panic attacks are one of the most typical examples of somatizations: they are characterized by a focusing of attention towards physiological arousal signals and by a pathological interpretation of them as indicating an imminent danger or a serious sickness. Regular physical activity is associated with decreasing somatization, probably through adaptive mechanisms of serotonergic circuits implicated in anxiety and nociception regulation.