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Fear of heights and visual height intolerance

Current Opinion in Neurology, 2014
The aim of this review is, first, to cover the different aspects of visual height intolerance such as historical descriptions, definition of terms, phenomenology of the condition, neurophysiological control of gaze, stance and locomotion, and therapy, and, second, to identify warranted epidemiological and experimental studies.Vivid descriptions of fear
Thomas, Brandt, Doreen, Huppert
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Fear of heights freezes gaze to the horizon

Journal of Vestibular Research, 2014
Fear of heights is elicited by a glance into an abyss. However, the visual exploration behavior of fearful subjects at height has not been analyzed yet. We investigated eye- and head movements, i.e. visual exploration behavior, of subjects susceptible to fear of heights during exposure to a visual cliff.
Günter, Kugler, Doreen, Huppert, Erich, Schneider, Thomas, Brandt   +3 more
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Fear of heights in ancient China

Journal of Neurology, 2012
Fear of heights (acrophobia) is defined as a subtype of specific phobias by the DSM-IV TR [1] criteria based on the diagnostic features of panic attacks. It has a lifetime prevalence of 3.1–5.3 % [2]. There is, however, a continuum extending from acrophobia to stimulus-dependent visual height intolerance, which does not fulfill the diagnostic criteria ...
Matthias Bauer, Doreen Huppert, Thomas Brandt   +2 more
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A brief treatment for fear of heights

The International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine, 2017
Objective To assess the effectiveness of a novel imaginal intervention for people with acrophobia. Methods The design was a randomized controlled trial with concealed randomization and blinded to other participants’ intervention.
Bruce Arroll, Suzanne M Henwood, Fred I Sundram, Douglas W Kingsford, Vicki Mount, Steve P Humm, Henry B Wallace, Avinesh Pillai   +7 more
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The origins of height fear: an evaluation of neoconditioning explanations

Behaviour Research and Therapy, 2001
The present research sought to establish a reliable and valid instrument for assessing the relevance of neoconditioning factors (e.g. latent inhibition, UCS inflation/revaluation, prior fear levels, prior expectancies of harm, fear and pain levels experienced during supposed learning events), in the development of human fear.
R G, Menzies, L, Parker
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Physiological changes in the treatment of acrophobia (fear of height)

Clinical Otolaryngology, 1979
In order to investigate the physiological changes produced by the treatment of acrophobic patients body movement and Microvibration were measured before and after treatment. Eighteen acrophobic patients were assigned at random to 1 of the 2 groups: a treatment group (n = 8) and a non-treatment group (n = 10).
T, Takeya, Y, Ohno, H, Matsubara, K, Yasuda, S, Watanabe, R, Shinzato, Y, Tanaka, S, Noda   +7 more
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Fear of heights in Roman antiquity and mythology

Journal of Neurology, 2013
Representative epidemiological studies recently documented that fear of heights and visual height intolerance affect about one-third of the population [1]. Obviously the experience of these conditions has a long history. One of the earliest descriptions of fear of heights is found in the Greek Corpus Hippocraticum from the 5th century BC: ‘‘a worsening
Doreen Huppert, Judy Benson, Benedikt Krammling, Thomas Brandt   +3 more
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Evidence for a non-associative model of the acquisition of a fear of heights

Behaviour Research and Therapy, 1998
Theories that fear results from previous traumatic experience (i.e. conditioning theories) have enjoyed widespread support for over half a century. Recent research, however, has cast doubt on the validity of these models in some specific phobias. Two studies on the etiology of height phobia have obtained findings consistent with a non-associative ...
R, Poulton, S, Davies, R G, Menzies, J D, Langley, P A, Silva   +4 more
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Dishabituation processes in height fear and dental fear: an indirect test of the non-associative model of fear acquisition

Behaviour Research and Therapy, 2000
The fear dishabituation hypothesis described in the non-associative model of fear acquisition was tested in a longitudinal birth cohort study. Results were consistent with height fear and phobia dishabituation. That is, 're-emergence' of a fear of heights occurred between age 11 and 18 years among individuals who reported higher levels of non-specific ...
R, Poulton, K E, Waldie, M G, Craske, R G, Menzies, R, McGee   +4 more
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A brief treatment for fear of heights.

International journal of psychiatry in medicine, 2018
Objective To assess the effectiveness of a novel imaginal intervention for people with acrophobia. Methods The design was a randomized controlled trial with concealed randomization and blinded to other participants' intervention. The intervention was a single novel imaginal intervention session or a 15-min meditation.
Bruce, Arroll, Suzanne M, Henwood, Fred I, Sundram, Douglas W, Kingsford, Vicki, Mount, Steve P, Humm, Henry B, Wallace, Avinesh, Pillai   +7 more
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