Psychopathology in Williams syndrome: the effect of individual differences across the lifespan [PDF]
The present research aimed to comprehensively explore psychopathology in Williams syndrome (WS) across the lifespan and evaluate the relationship between psychopathology and age category (child or adult), gender and cognitive ability.
American Psychiatric Association +12 more
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Anxiety and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in the Context of Human Brain Evolution:A Role for Theory in DSM-V? [PDF]
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
Bracha, Dr. H. Stefan +1 more
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Application of Adaptive Virtual Environments Through Biofeedback for the Treatment of Phobias
This study proposes solutions to help people with phobias through the use of virtual environments that allow a contact between the subjects and these phobias.
João Donga +4 more
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Phobias in poetry: Coleridge′s ancient mariner
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner was written by Coleridge and is a classic poetry about retribution, punishment, guilt, and curse. Religious beliefs and delusions can arise from neurologic lesions and anomalous experiences, suggesting that at least some ...
Satendra Singh, Abha Khetarpal
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From extinction learning to anxiety treatment: mind the gap [PDF]
Laboratory models of extinction learning in animals and humans have the potential to illuminate methods for improving clinical treatment of fear-based clinical disorders.
Carpenter, Joseph K. +2 more
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Tunnetiloja mittaavat menetelmät epänormaalin pelon hoidossa
This article surveys methods for measuring emotions. The focus is on emotion identification and measurement from behavior and physiological signals and on the instruments used.
Heidi Annika Martikainen, Erkki Mäkinen
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The effects of verbal information on children's fear beliefs about social situations [PDF]
Two experiments explored the role of verbal information in changing children’s fearrelated beliefs about social situations. In Experiment 1, 118 6- to 8- and 12- to 13-year-olds heard positive, negative, or no information about individuals’ experiences ...
Andy P. Field +41 more
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Preventing the development of observationally learnt fears in children by devaluing the model's negative response [PDF]
Vicarious learning has become an established indirect pathway to fear acquisition. It is generally accepted that associative learning processes underlie vicarious learning; however, whether this association is a form of conditioned stimulus-unconditioned
Askew, Chris +2 more
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SEMIOLINGUISTICS OF PROTECTIVE COMMUNICATION
The current paper investigates the notion of protective communication represented by systems of signs, texts, rituals which the authors regard as means of neutralizing cognitive constructs, generated by phobias of varying degrees of irrationality ...
Tatyana N. Astafurova +1 more
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Job phobia: School phobia revisited
Abstract Job phobia in the adult is psychodynamically similar to school phobia in the child. 16,17 Life's circumstances, with the acquisition of a family and the need to support them and become a mature adult appears to bring to the fore a previously repressed pattern. Since no one will take care of his family, he is forced to do so himself.
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