Efficacy of Psychiatric Treatment to Treat a Specific Phobia of Intravitreal Injections in a Patient with Neovascular Age-Related Macular Degeneration [PDF]
Case Reports in Ophthalmology, 2021 Intravitreal injection of anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (anti-VEGF) is essential for the treatment of macular diseases such as wet age-related macular degeneration and macular edema.
Atsuta Ozaki +5 more
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A Voxel-Based Morphometric Study of Gray Matter in Specific Phobia [PDF]
Life, 2022 The objective of this study was to analyze the neurostructural abnormalities of brain areas responsible for the acquisition and maintenance of fear in small animal phobia by comparing gray matter volume (GMV) in individuals with phobia and non-fearful ...
Francisco Rivero +6 more
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A Mendelian randomization study: causal relationship between immune cells and the risks of social phobia, specific phobia, and agoraphobia [PDF]
BMC PsychiatryBackground Although phobia is a common psychiatric disorder, the underlying biological mechanisms have not been fully elucidated. Complex immune-brain interactions that affect neural development, survival, and function may have causal and therapeutic ...
Jun-Neng Wang +8 more
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Risk Factors and Comorbidity in Childhood Specific Phobias
Bilişsel Davranışçı Psikoterapi ve Araştırmalar Dergisi, 2019 This study aims to investigate possible risk factors associated with specific phobias in children and comorbid mental disorders. Patients between 6-18 years of age who had presented to the child psychiatry outpatient clinic at Bezmialem Vakif University ...
Abdurrahman Cahid Orengul +2 more
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Reducing the meta-emotional problem decreases physiological fear response during exposure in phobics [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2016 Anxiety disorders may not only be characterized by specific symptomatology (e.g., tachycardia) in response to the fearful stimulus (primary problem or first-level emotion) but also by the tendency to negatively evaluate oneself for having those symptoms (
Alessandro Couyoumdjian +6 more
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Treatment of specific phobia in older adults
Clinical Interventions in Aging, 2007 Nancy A Pachana1, Rana M Woodward1, Gerard JA Byrne21School of Psychology, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia 2School of Medicine, University of Queensland, Brisbane, AustraliaAbstract: Phobias are common in later life, yet treatment research ...
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The association between primary nonmonosymptomatic nocturnal enuresis and the presence of specific phobia: a case–control study [PDF]
African Journal of Urology, 2022 Background Nocturnal enuresis (NE) is a common childhood condition characterized by recurrent bedwetting in children with normal bladder control over 5 years old.
Mahbubeh Isfahani +4 more
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The moderating role of avoidance behavior on anxiety over time: Is there a difference between social anxiety disorder and specific phobia? [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 Theories of anxiety disorders and phobias have ascribed a critical role to avoidance behavior in explaining the persistence of fear and anxiety, but knowledge about the role of avoidance behavior in the maintenance of anxiety in social anxiety disorder ...
Myriam Rudaz +4 more
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The Childbirth Fear Questionnaire and the Wijma Delivery Expectancy Questionnaire as Screening Tools for Specific Phobia, Fear of Childbirth. [PDF]
Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2022 Fairbrother N +3 more
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It Takes a Village: The Importance of Neuropsychological Findings in a Collaborative Approach for a Patient with Congenital Central Hypoventilation Syndrome and Specific Phobia. [PDF]
Case Rep Psychiatry, 2021 Skoch SH, Fu B, Stein AL, Greenstein SP.
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