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International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2022 Background: Perinatal anxiety and related disorders are common (20%), distressing and impairing. Fear of childbirth (FoB) is a common type of perinatal anxiety associated with negative mental health, obstetrical, childbirth and child outcomes.
N. Fairbrother +3 more
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Journal of Clinical Medicine, 2021 Background: Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) with exposure is the treatment of choice for specific phobia. Virtual reality exposure therapy (VRET) has shown benefits for the treatment and prevention of the return of fear in specific phobias by ...
Yolanda Álvarez-Pérez +6 more
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Neural processing of emotional facial stimuli in specific phobia: An fMRI study
Depression and Anxiety, 2021 Patients with specific phobia (SP) show altered brain activation when confronted with phobia‐specific stimuli. It is unclear whether this pathogenic activation pattern generalizes to other emotional stimuli.
J. Böhnlein +23 more
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Definitions, 2020 An anxiety disorder characterized by an intense, irrational fear cued by the presence or anticipation of a specific object or situation. Exposure to the phobic stimulus immediately provokes an anxiety response.
Joshua Lipsitz
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Scientific Reports, 2020 Great interest exists in maximizing exposure therapy efficacy in anxiety disorders. At the same time, reduced frequency and shortened duration of exposure sessions are required to meet the specific regularities in routine care settings.
F. Raeder +3 more
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Recent developments in the intervention of specific phobia among adults: a rapid review
F1000Research, 2020 Specific phobia is highly prevalent worldwide. Although the body of intervention studies is expanding, there is a lack of reviews that summarise recent progress and discuss the challenges and direction of research in this area.
C. Thng, N. Lim-Ashworth, B. Poh, C. Lim
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Augmenting Exposure Therapy: Mobile Augmented Reality for Specific Phobia
Frontiers in Virtual Reality, 2020 New technologies, such as virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR), can be used as an add-on to exposure therapy for common anxiety disorders. Although the benefits of VR for exposure therapy have already been demonstrated extensively in research,
N. D. Witte +5 more
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American Journal of Psychiatry, 2007 OBJECTIVE The study of human anxiety disorders has benefited greatly from functional neuroimaging approaches. Individual studies, however, vary greatly in their findings.
A. Etkin, T. Wager
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International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2020 The prevalence of anxiety disorders over the last year among seniors ranged from 3.6% to 17.2%. The most prevalent disorders are specific phobias. Data are needed concerning the consequences of specific phobia disorder on the level of functioning and ...
B. Ausín +3 more
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The cross-national epidemiology of specific phobia in the World Mental Health Surveys
Psychological Medicine, 2017 Background Although specific phobia is highly prevalent, associated with impairment, and an important risk factor for the development of other mental disorders, cross-national epidemiological data are scarce, especially from low- and middle-income ...
K. Wardenaar +27 more
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