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.
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The association between fear extinction, the ability to accomplish exposure and exposure therapy outcome in specific phobia. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 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.
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Recent developments in the intervention of specific phobia among adults: a rapid review. [PDF]
F1000Res, 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.
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Prevalence and Characterization of Specific Phobia Disorder in People over 65 Years Old in a Madrid Community Sample (Spain) and its Relationship to Quality of Life. [PDF]
Int J Environ Res 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 ...
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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.
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The cross-national epidemiology of specific phobia in the World Mental Health Surveys. [PDF]
Psychol Med, 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 ...
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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.
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Phobia of the Supernatural: A Distinct but Poorly Recognized Specific Phobia With an Adverse Impact on Daily Living. [PDF]
Front Psychiatry, 2018 The psychological and psychiatric literature has seldom appreciated the clinical fact that fears of ghosts and kindred supernatural worries may be a cause of intense discomfort, poor sleep, and socio-occupational impairment.
de Oliveira-Souza R.
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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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Psychometric investigation of the specific phobia of vomiting inventory: A new factor model. [PDF]
Int J Methods Psychiatr Res, 2018 Maack DJ, Ebesutani C, Smitherman TA.
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