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Nausea in Specific Phobia of Vomiting [PDF]

open access: yesBehavioral Sciences, 2013
Specific phobia of vomiting (SPOV) is a clinical condition with early onset, chronic course and substantial psychosocial impairment due to a rigorous avoidance behavior. A primary symptom which drives patients to consult a medical practitioner is nausea.
Eugen Trinka   +3 more
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Specific phobias [PDF]

open access: yesThe Lancet Psychiatry, 2018
Anxiety disorders are among the most prevalent mental disorders, but the subcategory of specific phobias has not been well studied. Phobias involve both fear and avoidance. For people who have specific phobias, avoidance can reduce the constancy and severity of distress and impairment.
William W, Eaton   +2 more
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Key factors behind various specific phobia subtypes

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2023
While it has been suggested that more than a quarter of the whole population is at risk of developing some form of specific phobia (SP) during their lives, we still know little about the various risk and protective factors and underlying mechanisms ...
Andras N. Zsido   +4 more
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Preferential Neuronal Responses to Snakes in the Monkey Medial Prefrontal Cortex Support an Evolutionary Origin for Ophidiophobia

open access: yesFrontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2021
Ophidiophobia (snake phobia) is one of the most common specific phobias. It has been proposed that specific phobia may have an evolutionary origin, and that attentional bias to specific items may promote the onset of phobia.
Ha Trong Dinh   +13 more
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Adaptation and psychometric properties of Severity Measure for Specific Phobia-Adult in an Indonesian sample

open access: yesHealth Psychology Report, 2021
Introduction Phobia is known as a type of anxiety disorder characterized by exaggerated and irrational fear about some specific situation, place, or object.
Dian V. S. Kaloeti   +3 more
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Treatment of a woman with emetophobia: a trauma focused approach

open access: yesMental Illness, 2012
A disproportionate fear of vomiting, or emetophobia, is a chronic and disabling condition which is characterized by a tendency to avoid a wide array of situations or activities that might increase the risk of vomiting.
Ad de Jongh
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An exploration of the nomological network of trypophobia.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2021
BackgroundTrypophobia is characterised by an aversion to or even revulsion for patterns of holes or visual stimuli featuring such patterns. Past research has shown that trypophobic stimuli trigger emotional and physiological reactions, but relatively ...
Eric Mayor   +3 more
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Initial and sustained brain responses to threat anticipation in blood-injection-injury phobia

open access: yesNeuroImage: Clinical, 2017
Blood-injection-injury (BII) phobia differs from other subtypes of specific phobia in that it is associated with elevated disgust-sensitivity as well as specific autonomic and brain responses during processing of phobia-relevant stimuli.
Leonie Brinkmann   +4 more
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Experience of a tertiary-level urology center in the clinical urological events of rare and very rare incidence. III. Psychourological events: 2. Phobia of renal failure due to loin pain

open access: yesAfrican Journal of Urology, 2020
Background End-stage renal disease and loin pain are prevalent nephrourological topics with unfavorable reputations among populations. We aimed to present our center’s experience with the cases of phobia of renal failure in relation to loin pain. Methods
Rabea Ahmed Gadelkareem   +9 more
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Haphephobia: a rare specific phobia of being touched

open access: yesEuropean Psychiatry, 2022
Introduction Haphephobia is a morbid fear of being touched or touching. The symptoms of Haphephobia are very similar to other specific phobias. Objectives Presentation of a case of haphephobia due to childhood sexual abuse Methods Mrs.
S. Nahar, M. Inam, M. Miah
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