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The Legislation for Providing Animal Access in Australian Residential Aged Care: It's Not a Zoo

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Providing meaningful animal contact to residential aged care facility (RACF) residents is problematic due to a lack of animal policies and National Guidelines. This paper examines how Australian Legislation could influence access to animal contact in RACFs and aims to answer the question, ‘Could current Legislation facilitate the development ...
Wendy Newton, Tania Signal, Jenni A. Judd   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Handheld or head-mounted? An experimental comparison of the potential of augmented reality for animal phobia treatment using smartphone and HoloLens 2

Frontiers in Virtual Reality, 2022
Exposure therapy is an effective treatment for specific phobia that could be further enhanced through Augmented Reality, a novel technology that can facilitate implementation of gradual exposure and promote treatment acceptability.
Nele A. J. De Witte, Fien Buelens, Glen Debard, Bert Bonroy, Wout Standaert, Fernando Tarnogol, Tom Van Daele   +6 more
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Who's afraid of the big bad wolf: a prospective paradigm to test Rachman's indirect pathways in children [PDF]

, 2001
Rachman's theory [The conditioning theory of fear insition: a critical examination. Behav. Res. Ther. 15 (1977) 375–387] of fear acquisition suggests that fears and phobias can be acquired through three pathways: direct conditioning, vicarious learning ...
Ajzen, Ajzen, Andy P Field, Bauer, Brewin, Campbell, Cook, Cooke, Davey, Davey, Davey, Davey, Davey, Davey, Davey, Davey, Dollinger, Doogan, Draper, Ellis, Field, French, Fuchs, Fuchs, Greenwood, Gullone, Jones, Karina A Knowles, King, Klinnert, Linton, Menzies, Menzies, Menzies, Merckelbach, Merckelbach, Mineka, Muris, Muris, Muris, Muris, Nicolas G Argyris, Ollendick, Ollendick, Rachman, Rachman, Rubin, Schaffer, Silverman, Sullivan, Vasey, Watson, White, Yule, Yule, Öst, Öst   +56 more
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Combined Delivery of CuO Nanoparticles and HIF‐1α Inhibitor Acriflavine for Synergistic Local Treatment of Glioblastoma

Advanced NanoBiomed Research, EarlyView.
Encapsulated acriflavine (ACF) and copper oxide nanoparticles (CuO NPs) are coreleased from coaxial nanofibers, producing synergistic antiglioblastoma multiforme effects. ACF suppresses the hypoxia‐inducible factor 1α pathway related to many downstream factors for tumor growth, while CuO NPs generate reactive oxygen species that assist cuproptosis ...
Daewoo Han, Iris S. Weitz, Hasan Slika, Betty Tyler, Andrew J. Steckl   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Social Anxiety Disorder

South African Journal of Psychiatry, 2013
According to epidemiological studies, rates of social anxiety disorder(SAD) or social phobia range from 3% to 16% in the generalpopulation.[1,2]Social phobia and specific phobias have an earlier ageof onset than other anxiety disorders.
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Internet-based CBT for depression with and without telephone tracking in a national helpline: randomised controlled trial [PDF]

, 2015
BACKGROUND Telephone helplines are frequently and repeatedly used by individuals with chronic mental health problems and web interventions may be an effective tool for reducing depression in this population. AIM To evaluate the effectiveness of a 6 week,
Christensen, Helen, Farrer, Louise, Griffiths, Kathleen M., Mackinnon, Andrew   +3 more
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Exploring Alexithymia, Uncertainty, Anxious Arousal, and Social Anxiety as Mediators of the Relationship Between Sensory Processing Differences and Restricted and Repetitive Behaviors in Autistic Adults

Autism Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Restricted and repetitive behaviors (RRB) are associated with sensory processing (SP) differences for autistic people, and are thought to be a coping strategy to help manage the sensory environment. Previous work shows that, for autistic people, alexithymia, intolerance of uncertainty (IU), and anxiety mediate the relationship between SP ...
Heather L. Moore, Samuel Brice, Natalya Spraggon, Barry Ingham, Mark Freeston, Jeremy R. Parr, Jacqui Rodgers   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

A review of the phenomenology, aetiology and treatment of animal phobia and insights for biophobia

People and Nature
Biophobia refers to a fear of living things, which leads to alienation from nature. The literature examining the underlying mechanisms and treatment of biophobia is sparse. This review aims to increase the readers' understanding of biophobia by examining
Melissa M. Norberg, Shanara Visvalingam, Richard J. Stevenson, Supreet Saluja   +3 more
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The effects of maternal social phobia on mother-infant interactions and infant social responsiveness [PDF]

, 2007
Background: Social phobia aggregates in families. The genetic contribution to intergenerational transmission is modest, and parenting is considered important.
Cooper, P., Creswell, C., Murray, L., Sack, C., Schofield, E.   +4 more
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Chemical Profiling, In Silico and In Vitro Studies to Identify Potential CDK2 and mTOR Inhibitor From Selaginella inaequalifolia (Hook. & Grev.) Spring Ethanolic Extracts

Chemistry &Biodiversity, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The current study is aimed to reveal the phytoprofile of Selaginella inaequalifolia (Hook. & Grev.) Spring using GC–MS and predict the drug properties, toxicity, biological properties of S. inaequalifolia ethanolic extracts (SiEE) using in silico methods and in vitro toxicity assays, namely, MTT and BSLB assay.
Johnson Marimuthu Alias Antonysamy, Sivaraman Arumugam, Robin Charles Antony Arulraj, Anne Wincy Jacob Thomas, Henrique D. M. Coutinho   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source