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Imagery and the Treatment of Phobic Disorders

2016
Imagery is a universal human phenomenon which allows individuals to adapt to their experience in an autonomous fashion. Imagery has progressively supplanted verbal, diagnostic, and therapeutic procedures in the treatment of phobic disorders. Inasmuch as imagery, affect, and autonomic control are right-hemisphere functions, an imagistic therapy allows ...
Heidi T. Beckman   +2 more
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The genetic basis of panic and phobic anxiety disorders

American Journal of Medical Genetics Part C: Seminars in Medical Genetics, 2008
AbstractPanic disorder and phobic anxiety disorders are common disorders that are often chronic and disabling. Genetic epidemiologic studies have documented that these disorders are familial and moderately heritable. Linkage studies have implicated several chromosomal regions that may harbor susceptibility genes; however, candidate gene association ...
Jordan W. Smoller   +2 more
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Treatment of Phobic Disorders

1982
In this chapter we are concerned primarily with the clinical application of exposure in vivo procedures. Treatment procedures as applied in experimental studies are not always directly comparable to the clinical application. As we have already discussed in the previous chapter, a functional behavior analysis is not made, but patients are randomly ...
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Physiological Measurements in Phobic and Obsessional Disorders

Scottish Medical Journal, 1975
The various physiological measurements which can be made in obsessional and phobic disorders are described. Useful information can be obtained about the effects of acute stress and the changes that medication can produce in anxious patients and the clinical progress of behaviour therapy can be monitored.
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Non-fat-phobic eating disorders: why we need to investigate implicit associations and neural correlates.

International Journal of Eating Disorders, 2013
The fifth edition of the Diagnostic and StatisticalManual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) represents aparadigm shift in eating disorder classification: Fearof weight gain is no longer the sine qua non of disor-dered eating.
J. Thomas   +2 more
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Personality disorders among patients with panic disorder and individuals with high anxiety sensitivity.

Psicothema, 2014
BACKGROUND No studies have been found that compared the psychopathology features, including personality disorders, of Panic Disorder (PD) and Panic Disorder with Agoraphobia (PDA), and a nonclinical sample with anxiety vulnerability.
J. Osma   +3 more
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Phobic Disorders are Associated with Temperament in Alcoholic Men

Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 1996
Objective: To investigate whether in a sample of men with alcohol dependence those with comorbid phobic disorders had higher persistence scores than those without. Method: Ninety-nine men with moderate–severe alcohol dependence recruited from an alcohol treatment programme were interviewed using the Structured Clinical Interview (SCID) and completed ...
Peter R. Joyce, J. Douglas Sellman
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Section B Lorazepam in phobic disorders: a pilot study

Current Medical Research and Opinion, 1973
SummaryIn a limited double-blind pilot trial, lorazepam was clearly superior to placebo in improving phobic symptoms. Sedative side-effects were fewer than with diazepam.
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Phobic disorders and fear of crime in the elderly

Aging & Mental Health, 1997
This study examines the fear of crime reported by a community sample of elderly cases of phobic disorder, compared with age- and sex-matched controls. The cases expressed more fear for personal safety and fear of property crime than did the controls, and fear of crime was regarded as a more serious problem by the cases.
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Genetic susceptibility for panic and phobic disorders

Trends in Molecular Medicine, 2001
Anxiety disorders are common, complex and heterogeneous psychiatric conditions, but remain poorly understood. They include panic disorder, agoraphobia and social phobia. In some cases, familial clustering has been observed and there is a 4–10-fold increased risk in first-degree relatives of panic disorder patients, as well as higher concordance rates ...
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