Discriminação baseada no peso: representações sociais de internautas sobre a gordofobia [PDF]
, 2018 The concept of fat phobia has been usually used to define ways of discrimination towards overweight bodies. The present work aimed to know the social representations of fat phobia elaborated by internet users. A documental research was conducted based on
Alberto, Maria de Fátima Pereira +4 more
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Phobia Anxiety Disorder: Etiology of Phobia [PDF]
SHS Web of ConferencesIt has been thousands of years since psychology has been researched, but with the clearer distinguishment and conception, there are still many debates and confusion between psychologists to be clarified. Fear, as one of the most common emotion of people,
Chang Xinyi
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Anxiety and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in the Context of Human Brain Evolution:A Role for Theory in DSM-V? [PDF]
, 2008 The “hypervigilance, escape, struggle, tonic immobility”\ud evolutionarily hardwired acute peritraumatic response\ud sequence is important for clinicians to understand. Our\ud commentary supplements the useful article on human\ud tonic immobility (TI) by
Bracha, Dr. H. Stefan +1 more
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Journal of Diabetes Investigation, 2023 Needle phobia is a specific phobia classified as an anxiety disorder in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders‐5, and can be a serious problem for patients requiring insulin injections.
Keiji Sugai +4 more
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Internal sensations as a source of fear: exploring a link between hypoxia and flight phobia [PDF]
, 2013 Although flight phobia is very common in the general population, knowledge of the underlying mechanisms is limited. The aim of the current study is to determine whether hypoxia is selectively associated with flight anxiety. We wanted to explore levels of
De Raedt, Rudi, Vanden Bogaerde, Anouk
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A latent class analysis of parental bipolar disorder: examining associations with offspring psychopathology [PDF]
, 2015 Bipolar disorder (BD) is highly heterogeneous, and course variations are associated with patient outcomes. This diagnostic complexity challenges identification of patients in greatest need of intervention.
Freed, Rachel D. +4 more
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Phobia Exposure Therapy Using Virtual and Augmented Reality: A Systematic Review
Applied Sciences, 2022 A specific phobia is a common anxiety-related disorder that can be treated efficiently using different therapies including exposure therapy or cognitive therapy. One of the most famous methods to treat a specific phobia is exposure therapy.
Ghaida Albakri +6 more
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Handedness and social anxiety:using Bryden's research as a catalyst to explore the influence of familial sinistrality and degree of handedness [PDF]
, 2015 Phil Bryden's work has impacted on many areas of laterality, including degree and measurement of hand preference, as well as influences of familial sinistrality (FS). For example, Bryden[(1977). Measuring handedness with questionnaires. Neuropsychologia,
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Phobia-specific patterns of cognitive emotion regulation strategies
Scientific Reports, 2023 Although fear plays a vital role in survival, an overly active threat detection system could be maladaptive due to its negative health consequences. Putatively maladaptive emotion regulation (ER) strategies are a core problem in phobias.
Andras N. Zsido +3 more
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Cortisol levels in response to starting school in children at increased risk for social phobia [PDF]
, 2011 Background: Research on depression has identified hyperactivity of the HPA axis as a potential contributory factor to the intergenerational transmission of affective symptoms. However, this has not yet been examined in the context of social phobia. The
Cooper, Peter +6 more
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