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Preferential Neuronal Responses to Snakes in the Monkey Medial Prefrontal Cortex Support an Evolutionary Origin for Ophidiophobia

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, Ha Trong Dinh, Hiroshi Nishimaru, Hiroshi Nishimaru, Quan Van Le, Jumpei Matsumoto, Jumpei Matsumoto, Tsuyoshi Setogawa, Tsuyoshi Setogawa, Rafael S. Maior, Carlos Tomaz, Taketoshi Ono, Hisao Nishijo, Hisao Nishijo   +13 more
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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., Andrews G., Ekman P., First M.B., Richards A., Rosenbaum J., Young A.W.   +6 more
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Optimal attentional focus during exposure therapy in specific phobia: a meta-analysis [PDF]

, 2013
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David, OD, Dethier, V, Koster, Ernst, Phillipot, F, Podinăa, IR   +4 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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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
Abbot, Alden, American Psychiatric Association, Beck, Buss, Bögels, Carleton, Clark, Clark, Coles, Collins, Duke, Gilovich, Gilovich, Govern, Harvey, Hofmann, Hope, Kenny, Leary, Lusia Stopa, Mansell, McEwan, Mellings, Michael A. Brown, Rapee, Rapee, Rodebaugh, Savitsky, Stopa, Storch, Turk, Vorauer, Watson, Weeks, Wells, Whisman, Woody, Woody, Woody   +39 more
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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, Andrea Meyer, Alessandro Miani, Roselind Lieb   +3 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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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.
Leonie Brinkmann, Hendrik Poller, Martin J. Herrmann, Wolfgang Miltner, Thomas Straube   +4 more
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Psychopathology in Williams syndrome: the effect of individual differences across the lifespan [PDF]

, 2009
The present research aimed to comprehensively explore psychopathology in Williams syndrome (WS) across the lifespan and evaluate the relationship between psychopathology and age category (child or adult), gender and cognitive ability.
American Psychiatric Association, American Psychiatric Association, Helen F. Dodd, Jefferys D., Karmiloff-Smith A., Kaufman J., Melanie A. Porter, Mervis C. B., Pober B. R., Silverman W. K., Soni S., Switaj D. M., Woodcock R. W.   +12 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

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, Nashwa Mostafa Azoz, Ahmed Reda, Ahmed Abdelhamid Shahat, Mohamed Farouk Abdelhafez, Amr Abou Faddan, Mahmoud Farouk, Mohamed Fawzy, Mahmoud Mohammed Osman, Mohammed Abdallah Elgammal   +9 more
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