Initial and sustained brain responses to threat anticipation in blood-injection-injury phobia
NeuroImage: 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.
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Phobia among residents in board training programs in Abha, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, 2019
Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, 2020 Background: Phobia is an extreme form of anxiety or fear which is triggered by a given situation or object or even danger associated with a situation or object for more than 6 months.
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Optimal attentional focus during exposure therapy in specific phobia: a meta-analysis [PDF]
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A rare case of alektorophobia treated successfully with graded exposure therapy
Industrial Psychiatry Journal, 2016 Phobia is a type of anxiety disorder characterized by circumscribed, marked fear or anxiety to a specific object or situation which is out of proportion to the actual danger posed by the concerned object or situation.
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Human brain evolution and the "Neuroevolutionary Time-depth Principle:" Implications for the Reclassification of fear-circuitry-related traits in DSM-V and for studying resilience to warzone-related posttraumatic stress disorder. [PDF]
, 2006 The DSM-III, DSM-IV, DSM-IV-TR and ICD-10 have judiciously minimized discussion of etiologies to distance clinical psychiatry from Freudian psychoanalysis.
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Spider phobics more easily see a spider in morphed schematic pictures
Behavioral and Brain Functions, 2007 Background Individuals with social phobia are more likely to misinterpret ambiguous social situations as more threatening, i.e. they show an interpretive bias. This study investigated whether such a bias also exists in specific phobia.
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Gaze cuing of attention in snake phobic women: the influence of facial expression [PDF]
, 2015 Only a few studies investigated whether animal phobics exhibit attentional biases in contexts where no phobic stimuli are present. Among these, recent studies provided evidence for a bias toward facial expressions of fear and disgust in animal phobics ...
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Cognitive Biases in Blood-Injection-Injury Phobia: A Review
Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2021 Blood-injection-injury (BII) phobia can lead to avoidance of crucial medical procedures and to detrimental health consequences, even among health workers. Yet unlike other specific phobias, BII phobia has been understudied.
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The spotlight effect and the illusion of transparency in social anxiety [PDF]
, 2006 [Clark, D. M., & Wells, A. (1995). A cognitive model of social phobia. In: R. G. Heimberg, M. R. Liebowitz, D. A. Hope, & F. R. Schneier (Eds.), Social phobia: diagnosis, assessment, and treatment (pp. 69–93). New York: Guildford Press] cognitive
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How specific are specific phobias?
Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 1997 To study the generality of fears among specific phobic individuals and controls, 31 individuals with a DSM-IV diagnosis of specific phobia (natural environmental type: n = 13; blood-injection-injury type: n = 10; and situational type: n = 8) and 33 never mentally ill control subjects participated in an interview and questionnaire study.
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