The 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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Frontiers 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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German version of the specific phobia of vomiting inventory (SPOVI): psychometric properties and correlates in a clinical and non-clinical sample. [PDF]
BMC PsychiatryHennemann S +4 more
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The High Place Phenomenon: Associations With Markers of Positive and Negative Mental Health in Individuals Suffering From Specific Phobia or Agoraphobia. [PDF]
Clin Psychol PsychotherWiesmann L, Wannemüller A, Teismann T.
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Emotion processing in infancy: specificity in risk for social anxiety and associations with two year outcomes [PDF]
, 2011 The current study examined the specificity of patterns of responding to high and low intensity negative emotional expressions of infants of mothers with social phobia, and their association with child outcomes at two years of age. Infants of mothers with
Achenbach T.M. +6 more
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Treatment of a woman with emetophobia: a trauma focused approach
Mental 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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Adaptation of cognitive behaviour therapy in childhood obsessive-compulsive disorder: a case study
Open Journal of Psychiatry and Allied Sciences, 2020 Cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) has been proved to be one of the most well-researched and effective therapy. It has been found effective in many clinical conditions in children and adolescents as well.
Sampurna Chakraborty, Susmita Halder
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An exploration of the nomological network of trypophobia.
PLoS 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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African 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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Freeze, Flight, Fight, Fright, Faint: Adaptationist Perspectives on the Acute Stress Response Spectrum [PDF]
, 2004 This article reviews the existing evolutionary perspectives on the acute stress response habitual faintness and blood-injection-injury type-specific phobia (BIITS phobia). In this article, an alternative evolutionary perspective, based on recent advances
Bracha, Dr. H. Stefan
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