Concerning phobias, nonexperiential, engaging innate fear, and experiential, engaging conditioned fear, disorders can be distinguished. However, so far, we know a lot about how the brain processes fear that is conditioned, while much less is known about innate fear. An increase of research on innate fear is therefore necessary.
Recent developments in the intervention of specific phobia among adults
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. Hence, this rapid review seeks to systematically evaluate the available evidence in the last five years in the ...
Specific phobias
Introduction. Anxiety disorders, which include generalised anxiety disorder, panic disorder, agoraphobia, social phobia, and specific (simple) phobias, are more prevalent in adults than are other mental disorders. 1 In 1987, Marks 2 reviewed the existing literature and conceptualised the study of anxiety, which led to a surge in research on the epidemiology and natural history of the ...
Specific phobias
As many people with specific phobias do not seek treatment, the epidemiological aspects of this Review concentrate on population-based data, focusing on the prevalence, incidence, and natural history of specific phobias. We also discuss research on risk factors (including genetic epidemiology) and treatment modalities for specific phobias.
The nature and neurobiology of fear and anxiety: State of the science
1. Introduction. Fear and anxiety play a central role in the lives of humans and other mammals, and there is an abiding interest among scientists, clinicians, philosophers, artists, and the public at large in understanding their nature, identifying their biological underpinnings, and determining their contribution to other psychological processes, from cognition and decision-making, to health ...
Key factors behind various specific phobia subtypes
Introduction. Evidence shows that specific phobias (SPs) are the most common anxiety- and mental disorders with a lifetime prevalence between 7.4 and 14% among adults with a cumulative incidence ...
The Origins of Specific Phobias: Influential Theories and Current
to initialize an innately hardwired response, in its more extreme. version, the nonassociative point of view assumes that certain. fears, such as fear of heights and water, represent ...
Fear, anxiety, and phobias
This Collection welcomes original research articles investigating the processes underlying fear, anxiety, and specific phobias. Empirical animal and human research that focuses on the diagnosis ...
Mental Health Research on the Genetics of Phobias
Fear of specific animals (dogs, spiders, etc.) Fear of open spaces, enclosed space, or high places. Fear of natural events, such as thunderstorms. While fears are an unavoidable part of being human, most fears can be controlled and managed. Phobias, however, cause psychological and physical reactions that are difficult if not impossible to manage.
Figuring out phobia
All phobias are anxiety disorders, lumped in the same class as post-traumatic stress disorder and panic disorder, among others. And anxiety disorders are, fundamentally, based on fear. "What we know about the neurocircuitry and brain basis of fear originally comes from animal research," says psychiatrist Scott Rauch, MD, of Harvard Medical School.
Stanford study finds stronger one-way fear signals in brains of anxious
In chronically stressed or anxious children, the brain's fear center sends signals to the decision-making part of the brain that make it harder to regulate negative emotions, according to new research from the Stanford University School of Medicine.. The findings, which was published April 21 in Biological Psychiatry, come from the first study to use brain scans to examine how emotion ...
Phobias
410-955-5000 Maryland. 855-695-4872 Outside of Maryland. +1-410-502-7683 International. A phobia is an uncontrollable, irrational, and persistent fear of a specific object, situation, or activity. The fear experienced by people with phobias can be so great that some go to extreme lengths to avoid the source of their fear.
Specific phobias
Common types of specific phobias are fears of: Situations, such as airplanes, driving, enclosed spaces or going to school. Nature, such as thunderstorms, heights or the dark. Animals or insects, such as dogs, snakes or spiders. Blood, shots or injuries, such as needles, accidents or medical procedures.
Specific phobias
The best treatment for specific phobias is a form of therapy called exposure therapy. Sometimes your health care professional also may recommend other therapies or medicine. Knowing the cause of a phobia is less important than focusing on how to treat the avoidance behavior that has developed over time. The goal of treatment is to improve your ...
Understanding clinical fear and anxiety through the lens of human fear
Over the past two decades, Pavlovian fear conditioning research has produced a wealth of insight into general mechanisms and principles of threat learning and emotional memory formation and maintenance 17-19.Pavlovian fear conditioning has also gained considerable popularity in translational research 20,21, owing to a number of unique strengths of the Pavlovian fear conditioning paradigm.
Understanding and overcoming phobias, with Martin Antony, PhD
Specific phobias—such as fear of heights, needles, flying, or spiders—affect up to 13% of people at some point in their lives. Clinical psychologist Martin Antony, PhD, of Toronto Metropolitan University, talks about the difference between a fear and a phobia, where phobias come from, what the most common phobias are, and the effective ...
List of Phobias: Common Phobias From A to Z
Social phobias: Now known as social anxiety disorder, this phobia is marked by a fear of social situations in which a person might be judged or embarrassed.; Agoraphobia: This phobia involves an irrational and extreme fear of being in places where escape is difficult.It may involve a fear of crowded places or even of leaving one's home. Specific phobias: When people talk about having a phobia ...
Phobia
Symptoms of phobia. The symptoms of phobia are: Excessive, unreasonable, persistent feelings of fear or anxiety that are triggered by a particular object, activity, or situation.; Feelings that are either irrational or out of proportion to any actual threat. For example, while anyone may be afraid of an unrestrained, menacing dog, most people do not run away from a calm, quiet animal on a leash.
10 of the Most Common Phobias
The most common phobias include: Arachnophobia: an intense fear of spiders and other arachnids. Ophidiophobia: an intense fear of snakes. Acrophobia: an intense fear of heights. Aerophobia: an intense fear of flying. Cynophobia: an intense fear of dogs. Astraphobia: an intense fear of thunder and lightning.
The Ultimate List Of Common Phobias (A To Z)
Phobia Practice & Research Journal, 3(2), 79-80. Trivedi SK, Mangot AG, Munoli RN. A rare case of alektorophobia treated successfully with graded exposure therapy.
The Ultimate List Of 550+ Phobias From A to Z
Aeronausiphobia: fear of vomiting secondary to airsickness. Aerophobia: fear of aircraft or flying. Aerophobia: fear of drafts, air swallowing, or airborne noxious substances. Afrophobia: fear of Africans. Agateophobia: fear of insanity. Agliophobia: fear of pain. Agoraphobia: fear of open places.
Specific Phobia
Specific phobia is a common anxiety disorder. Patients with specific phobias experience anxiety and panic attacks along with unreasonable fear of exposure or anticipated exposure to a phobic stimulus. The anxiety response goes beyond normal apprehension and leads to avoidance behavior. The intensity of the fear is often disproportionate to the ...
Exploring women's perception and attitude towards antidepressant use: a
The research emphasizes the need for tailored awareness programs to promote informed decision-making regarding antidepressant usage among Saudi women. ... Participants reported that social stigma, religious beliefs, and fear of addiction significantly influenced their attitudes toward antidepressant use. This study explores women's ...
South Korea Holds Emergency Meeting as EV Fires Stir Consumer Fear
The fire on Aug. 1, which appeared to start spontaneously in a Mercedes-Benz EV parked below a residential building, took eight hours to put out, destroying or damaging about 140 cars and forcing ...
Lebanon's Displaced Fear a Bleak Future
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Healthcare staff experiences on the impact of COVID-19 on emergency
Procedure for the interviews. The interview guide (provided in Table 2) was developed by the researcher (A.B.) and piloted with 4 healthcare staff before commencing data collection.In-depth semi-structured interviews were conducted by researcher (A.B.), who had experience in conducting interviews and qualitative research, with 30 ED healthcare staff between 15/03/2022 and 30/04/2022.
Dementia May Not Be as Common Among Parkinson's Patients as Thought
THURSDAY, Aug. 8, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- Many people with Parkinson's disease may fear dementia as a common consequence of the disease. But new research suggests dementia is not inevitable with Parkinson's, and in fact is less common than presumed. If dementia does occur, it typically does so much later in life than was previously assumed ...
COMMENTS
Concerning phobias, nonexperiential, engaging innate fear, and experiential, engaging conditioned fear, disorders can be distinguished. However, so far, we know a lot about how the brain processes fear that is conditioned, while much less is known about innate fear. An increase of research on innate fear is therefore necessary.
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. Hence, this rapid review seeks to systematically evaluate the available evidence in the last five years in the ...
Introduction. Anxiety disorders, which include generalised anxiety disorder, panic disorder, agoraphobia, social phobia, and specific (simple) phobias, are more prevalent in adults than are other mental disorders. 1 In 1987, Marks 2 reviewed the existing literature and conceptualised the study of anxiety, which led to a surge in research on the epidemiology and natural history of the ...
As many people with specific phobias do not seek treatment, the epidemiological aspects of this Review concentrate on population-based data, focusing on the prevalence, incidence, and natural history of specific phobias. We also discuss research on risk factors (including genetic epidemiology) and treatment modalities for specific phobias.
1. Introduction. Fear and anxiety play a central role in the lives of humans and other mammals, and there is an abiding interest among scientists, clinicians, philosophers, artists, and the public at large in understanding their nature, identifying their biological underpinnings, and determining their contribution to other psychological processes, from cognition and decision-making, to health ...
Introduction. Evidence shows that specific phobias (SPs) are the most common anxiety- and mental disorders with a lifetime prevalence between 7.4 and 14% among adults with a cumulative incidence ...
to initialize an innately hardwired response, in its more extreme. version, the nonassociative point of view assumes that certain. fears, such as fear of heights and water, represent ...
This Collection welcomes original research articles investigating the processes underlying fear, anxiety, and specific phobias. Empirical animal and human research that focuses on the diagnosis ...
Fear of specific animals (dogs, spiders, etc.) Fear of open spaces, enclosed space, or high places. Fear of natural events, such as thunderstorms. While fears are an unavoidable part of being human, most fears can be controlled and managed. Phobias, however, cause psychological and physical reactions that are difficult if not impossible to manage.
All phobias are anxiety disorders, lumped in the same class as post-traumatic stress disorder and panic disorder, among others. And anxiety disorders are, fundamentally, based on fear. "What we know about the neurocircuitry and brain basis of fear originally comes from animal research," says psychiatrist Scott Rauch, MD, of Harvard Medical School.
In chronically stressed or anxious children, the brain's fear center sends signals to the decision-making part of the brain that make it harder to regulate negative emotions, according to new research from the Stanford University School of Medicine.. The findings, which was published April 21 in Biological Psychiatry, come from the first study to use brain scans to examine how emotion ...
410-955-5000 Maryland. 855-695-4872 Outside of Maryland. +1-410-502-7683 International. A phobia is an uncontrollable, irrational, and persistent fear of a specific object, situation, or activity. The fear experienced by people with phobias can be so great that some go to extreme lengths to avoid the source of their fear.
Common types of specific phobias are fears of: Situations, such as airplanes, driving, enclosed spaces or going to school. Nature, such as thunderstorms, heights or the dark. Animals or insects, such as dogs, snakes or spiders. Blood, shots or injuries, such as needles, accidents or medical procedures.
The best treatment for specific phobias is a form of therapy called exposure therapy. Sometimes your health care professional also may recommend other therapies or medicine. Knowing the cause of a phobia is less important than focusing on how to treat the avoidance behavior that has developed over time. The goal of treatment is to improve your ...
Over the past two decades, Pavlovian fear conditioning research has produced a wealth of insight into general mechanisms and principles of threat learning and emotional memory formation and maintenance 17-19.Pavlovian fear conditioning has also gained considerable popularity in translational research 20,21, owing to a number of unique strengths of the Pavlovian fear conditioning paradigm.
Specific phobias—such as fear of heights, needles, flying, or spiders—affect up to 13% of people at some point in their lives. Clinical psychologist Martin Antony, PhD, of Toronto Metropolitan University, talks about the difference between a fear and a phobia, where phobias come from, what the most common phobias are, and the effective ...
Social phobias: Now known as social anxiety disorder, this phobia is marked by a fear of social situations in which a person might be judged or embarrassed.; Agoraphobia: This phobia involves an irrational and extreme fear of being in places where escape is difficult.It may involve a fear of crowded places or even of leaving one's home. Specific phobias: When people talk about having a phobia ...
Symptoms of phobia. The symptoms of phobia are: Excessive, unreasonable, persistent feelings of fear or anxiety that are triggered by a particular object, activity, or situation.; Feelings that are either irrational or out of proportion to any actual threat. For example, while anyone may be afraid of an unrestrained, menacing dog, most people do not run away from a calm, quiet animal on a leash.
The most common phobias include: Arachnophobia: an intense fear of spiders and other arachnids. Ophidiophobia: an intense fear of snakes. Acrophobia: an intense fear of heights. Aerophobia: an intense fear of flying. Cynophobia: an intense fear of dogs. Astraphobia: an intense fear of thunder and lightning.
Phobia Practice & Research Journal, 3(2), 79-80. Trivedi SK, Mangot AG, Munoli RN. A rare case of alektorophobia treated successfully with graded exposure therapy.
Aeronausiphobia: fear of vomiting secondary to airsickness. Aerophobia: fear of aircraft or flying. Aerophobia: fear of drafts, air swallowing, or airborne noxious substances. Afrophobia: fear of Africans. Agateophobia: fear of insanity. Agliophobia: fear of pain. Agoraphobia: fear of open places.
Specific phobia is a common anxiety disorder. Patients with specific phobias experience anxiety and panic attacks along with unreasonable fear of exposure or anticipated exposure to a phobic stimulus. The anxiety response goes beyond normal apprehension and leads to avoidance behavior. The intensity of the fear is often disproportionate to the ...
The research emphasizes the need for tailored awareness programs to promote informed decision-making regarding antidepressant usage among Saudi women. ... Participants reported that social stigma, religious beliefs, and fear of addiction significantly influenced their attitudes toward antidepressant use. This study explores women's ...
The fire on Aug. 1, which appeared to start spontaneously in a Mercedes-Benz EV parked below a residential building, took eight hours to put out, destroying or damaging about 140 cars and forcing ...
US News is a recognized leader in college, grad school, hospital, mutual fund, and car rankings. Track elected officials, research health conditions, and find news you can use in politics ...
Procedure for the interviews. The interview guide (provided in Table 2) was developed by the researcher (A.B.) and piloted with 4 healthcare staff before commencing data collection.In-depth semi-structured interviews were conducted by researcher (A.B.), who had experience in conducting interviews and qualitative research, with 30 ED healthcare staff between 15/03/2022 and 30/04/2022.
THURSDAY, Aug. 8, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- Many people with Parkinson's disease may fear dementia as a common consequence of the disease. But new research suggests dementia is not inevitable with Parkinson's, and in fact is less common than presumed. If dementia does occur, it typically does so much later in life than was previously assumed ...