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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"specific phobia"”.
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Quality of Life in Young Adults with Specific Phobia
The current study examined the effects of specific phobia on an individual's quality of life (QOL) and life satisfaction. To that end, 29 individuals with DSM-IV diagnoses of specific phobia and 30 control participants with no current diagnosable psychopathology completed several widely utilized …
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Comorbid ADHD: Implications for Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy of Youth with a Specific Phobia
… of youth who received an intensive CBT for a specific phobia. Method: 135 youth (ages 6-15; 52.2% female; 88.2% white) were randomized to either an individual or parent-augmented intensive CBT targeting a specific phobia. Latent growth curve models were used to explore the association of ADHD …
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Trypophobia: An investigation of clinical features
OBJECTIVE: Trypophobia refers to the fear of, or aversion to, clusters of holes. We assessed clinical features of trypophobia, and investigated whether it showed more resemblance to a specific phobia or to obsessive-compulsive disorder. METHODS: An online survey was conducted to gather information …
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Caulrophobia: An investigation of clinical features
Background: Coulrophobia describes the experience of significant distress, fear and/ or revulsion when exposed to the image and/or person of a clown (Stevenson, 2010). It may start in childhood and continue into adulthood (Spratley, 2009). There is limited scientific literature on this topic …
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Toward A Conceptualization Of Emetophobia: Examining Intolerance Of Uncertainty As A Unique Predictor Of Symptoms
Emetophobia, a poorly understood disorder, is a specific phobia characterized by an irrational and persistent fear of oneself vomiting or others vomiting. Though research on the disorder is sparse, previous investigations have reported interference in social, occupational, and health domains in the …
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Examining the roles of fear and disgust in emetophobia
Emetophobia is a specific phobia of vomiting characterized by extreme avoidance of vomit-related stimuli. Literature on specific phobias has proposed that the emotion of disgust can play a role in some specific phobias, whereas fear and anxiety have long been considered the primary emotions …
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Brain Electrical Activity in Infants of Depressed and Anxious Mothers
… of cerebral hemisphere activation and that specific patterns of electroencephalographic (EEG) asymmetry may indicate risk for depression and anxiety. The extant developmental psychopathology literature has examined patterns of EEG asymmetry in the offspring of parents with affective …
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Effects of augmentation agents on emotional memory consolidation and subliminal cue exposure to fear-relavent stimuli
… awareness. Participants that met criteria for a specific phobia of spiders (excluding the daily interference criteria) were randomized to receive placebo or DCS on day 1. All participants completed a subliminal cue exposure task to spiders on day 1. Results demonstrated that individuals in the …
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Correlation of Dental Anxiety, Dental Phobia, and Psychological Constructs in a Sample of Patients Receiving Dental Care at Temple University Kornberg School of Dentistry
Introduction: Dental anxiety, fear, and phobia are common factors that prevent individuals from seeking dental care by delaying dental care or terminating the visit entirely, which may cause a decline in oral health-related quality of life. Dental anxiety often has a correlation with other …
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Prevalence and correlates of anxiety disorders in psychotic illness
… PTSD (n=9, 3.98%; 95% CI [1.84-7.42%]), specific phobia (n=7, 3.10%; 95% CI [1.25-6.28%]), anxiety disorder not otherwise specified (n=7, 3.10%; 95% CI [1.25-6.28%]), social phobia (n=4, 1.77%; 95% CI [0.48%-4.47%]), generalised anxiety disorder (n=4, 1.77%; 95% CI [0.48-4.47%]), …
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Coulrophobia: An Investigation into the Prevalence, Origins and Psychological Basis of the Fear of Clowns
<b>Introduction</b>: Coulrophobia, the fear of clowns, is an anxiety disorder which can be categorised as a specific phobia within the subtype of “Other” in the DSM-5-TR (American Psychiatric Association, 2022). Although clown fear has been widely discussed in popular media, it remains …
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Spatial and temporal processing biases in visual working memory in specific anxiety
… These approaches assume that distortions in specific levels of information processing are relevant for the onset and maintenance of the disorder. A detailed knowledge about the nature of these distortions would have important implications for the therapy of anxiety, as the implementation of …
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Pharmacotherapy for Social Anxiety Disorder and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: New Meta-Analytic Approaches to Synthesising the Evidence
… module [mRCT] of the Controlled Trials database, specific to each aim. RCTs of pharmacological treatments comparing active drug versus active drug or active drug versus placebo for SAD and PTSD were considered for inclusion in the respective chapters, and in answering the aims, with the inclusion …