BMC Psychology, 2023 Background Evidence suggests that dental anxiety and phobia are frequently the result of direct associative fear conditioning but that pre-exposure to dental stimuli prior to conditioning results in latent inhibition of fear learning.
Laura D. Seligman +9 more
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Online Cognitive-Behavioural Intervention to Manage Dental Anxiety: A 12-Month Randomised Clinical Trial. [PDF]
Community Dent Oral EpidemiolABSTRACT Objective The study aimed to test the efficacy of an online cognitive‐behavioural therapy dental anxiety intervention (o‐CBT) that could be easily implemented in dental healthcare settings. Methods An online cognitive‐behavioural protocol based on psychoeducation, exposure to feared dental procedures and cognitive restructuring was developed ...
Tellez M +4 more
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Human brain evolution and the "Neuroevolutionary Time-depth Principle:" Implications for the Reclassification of fear-circuitry-related traits in DSM-V and for studying resilience to warzone-related posttraumatic stress disorder. [PDF]
, 2006 The DSM-III, DSM-IV, DSM-IV-TR and ICD-10 have judiciously minimized discussion of etiologies to distance clinical psychiatry from Freudian psychoanalysis.
Bracha, Dr. H. Stefan
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Anxiety and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in the Context of Human Brain Evolution:A Role for Theory in DSM-V? [PDF]
, 2008 The “hypervigilance, escape, struggle, tonic immobility”\ud evolutionarily hardwired acute peritraumatic response\ud sequence is important for clinicians to understand. Our\ud commentary supplements the useful article on human\ud tonic immobility (TI) by
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Systematic review and meta-analysis: anxiety and depressive disorders in offspring of parents with anxiety disorders [PDF]
, 2019 Objective: We conducted meta-analyses to assess risk of anxiety disorders among offspring of parents with anxiety disorders and to establish whether there is evidence of specificity of risk for anxiety disorders as opposed to depression in offspring, and
Creswell, Cathy +2 more
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Dental fear, anxiety, and phobia; causes, diagnostic criteria and the medical and social impact
Journal of Mind and Medical Sciences, 2022 Despite technological advances in modern medical science and practice, many people still associate dental treatment with unpleasant emotional sensations and pain.
Nadya Tsetsova Avramova
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Personality and phobias in adolescence: age and gender in psychopathological expressions [PDF]
, 2019 Background: Although the understanding of adolescent phobias is important, this phenomenon has thus far not been adequately researched. This report, based on clinical experience, highlights prevalent phobic phenomena linked to personality characteristics.
Alibrandi, Angela +6 more
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Freeze, Flight, Fight, Fright, Faint: Adaptationist Perspectives on the Acute Stress Response Spectrum [PDF]
, 2004 This article reviews the existing evolutionary perspectives on the acute stress response habitual faintness and blood-injection-injury type-specific phobia (BIITS phobia). In this article, an alternative evolutionary perspective, based on recent advances
Bracha, Dr. H. Stefan
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Improving Dental Experiences by Using Virtual Reality Distraction: A Simulation Study [PDF]
, 2014 Dental anxiety creates significant problems for both patients and the dental profession. Some distraction interventions are already used by healthcare professionals to help patients cope with unpleasant procedures. The present study is novel because it a)
Andrade, J +7 more
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The Odyssey of Dental Anxiety: From Prehistory to the Present. A Narrative Review [PDF]
, 2017 Dental anxiety (DA) can be considered as a universal phenomenon with a high prevalence worldwide; DA and pain are also the main causes for medical emergencies in the dental office, so their prevention is an essential part of patient safety and overall ...
Abrahamsson +231 more
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