Afraid of Beautiful Women, Teens or Wax Figures? You Might be on Our List. (Source: Health News: CBSNews.com)

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Afraid of Beautiful Women, Teens or Wax Figures? You Might be on Our List. (Source: Health News: CBSNews.com)

Dr. Jennifer Hartstein sat down with Itay Hod backstage at the Early Show on Saturday to discuss the most common types of phobias children have and how to overcome them. (Source: Health News: CBSNews.com)

Dr. Jennifer Hartstein sat down with Itay Hod backstage at the Early Show on Saturday to discuss the most common types of phobias children have and how to overcome them. (Source: Health News: CBSNews.com)

Dr. Jennifer Hartstein sat down with Itay Hod backstage at the Early Show on Saturday to discuss the most common types of phobias children have and how to overcome them. (Source: Health News: CBSNews.com)MedWorm Message: Register for MedMatcha, MedWorm's medical advertising network, and receive $5 free advertising.

Dr. Jennifer Hartstein sat down with Itay Hod backstage at the Early Show on Saturday to discuss the most common types of phobias children have and how to overcome them. (Source: Health News: CBSNews.com)

Dr. Jennifer Hartstein sat down with Itay Hod backstage at the Early Show on Saturday to discuss the most common types of phobias children have and how to overcome them. (Source: Health News: CBSNews.com)

Dr. Jennifer Hartstein sat down with Itay Hod backstage at the Early Show on Saturday to discuss the most common types of phobias children have and how to overcome them. (Source: Health News: CBSNews.com)

Dr. Jennifer Hartstein sat down with Itay Hod backstage at the Early Show on Saturday to discuss the most common types of phobias children have and how to overcome them. (Source: Health News: CBSNews.com)

Dr. Jennifer Hartstein sat down with Itay Hod backstage at the Early Show on Saturday to discuss the most common types of phobias children have and how to overcome them. (Source: Health News: CBSNews.com)

Dr. Jennifer Hartstein sat down with Itay Hod backstage at the Early Show on Saturday to discuss the most common types of phobias children have and how to overcome them. (Source: Health News: CBSNews.com)

Dr. Jennifer Hartstein sat down with Itay Hod backstage at the Early Show on Saturday to discuss the most common types of phobias children have and how to overcome them. (Source: Health News: CBSNews.com)MedWorm Message: Register for MedMatcha, MedWorm's medical advertising network, and receive $5 free advertising.

This study discusses the advantages of AR as well as its potential applications. PMID: 20569788 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Behavior Therapy)

Abstract  The aim of this work is to study the characteristics of tinnitus both in normal hearing subjects and in patients with hearing loss. The study considered tinnitus sufferers, ranging from 21 to 83 years of age, who were referred to the Audiology Section of Palermo University in the years 2006–2008. The following parameters were considered: age, sex, hearing threshold, tinnitus laterality, tinnitus duration, tinnitus measurements and subjective disturbance caused by tinnitus. The sample was divided into Group1 (G1), 115 subjects with normal hearing, and Group2 (G2), 197 subjects with hearing loss. Especially for G2, there was a predominance of males compared to females (P = 0.011); the highest percentage of tinnitus resulted in the decades 61–70 and...

Despite the conceptualization of phobic fear as a multi-factorial response, the measurement and treatment of phobias is often not comprehensive. The extant literature on the treatment of phobias for individuals with intellectual disabilities has exclusively focused on indices of behavioral avoidance. The present study demonstrates the treatment of behavioral avoidance and physiological reactivity in a child diagnosed with autism, intellectual disability, and a dog phobia. The results indicate that the individual often experienced physiological reactivity in the presence of the feared stimulus despite engaging in behavioral approach. Treatment of both behavioral avoidance and physiological reactivity resulted in successful generalization of treatment effects across three additional dogs and...MedWorm Message: Register for MedMatcha, MedWorm's medical advertising network, and receive $5 free advertising.

Authors: Berger M Early childhood fears are common and transient. Some may give rise to specific phobias persisting into adulthood. The origins and nature of early fears and phobias and their relationship with later phobias remain contentious. This paper examines and aims to resolve some of the associated theoretical and clinical issues using a reinterpretation derived from the neural model introduced here. The foundation of the model is evidence that neonates and infants react to the hedonic (pleasant/unpleasant) properties of visual stimuli, suggesting that such reactivity is inherent in visual systems. A model of the reactivity and the associated learning, based on the work of LeDoux (2000) and others, is used to argue that certain stimuli, such as the sight of snakes, produce intri...

Abstract  Anxiety disorders, including phobias and post-traumatic stress disorder, are common and disabling disorders that often involve avoidance behavior. Cognitive-behavioral treatments, specifically imaginal and in vivo forms of exposure therapy, have been accepted and successful forms of treatment for these disorders. Virtual reality exposure therapy, an alternative to more traditional exposure-based therapies, involves immersion in a computer-generated virtual environment that minimizes avoidance and facilitates emotional processing. In this article, we review evidence on the application of virtual reality exposure therapy to the treatment of specific phobias and post-traumatic stress disorder and discuss its advantages and cautions. Content Type Journal ArticleDO...

Psychoanalysts used to argue that the fear of flying is irrational because flying is safer than driving.  This analysis is based on the invalid assumption that what people fear is a plane crash.  Actually, normal fears can be broken down into two parts, called the danger and the anxiety expectancy.   The danger expectancy is a fear of being injured or killed.  Although everybody is afraid of injury, people vary enormously in how afraid they are.  Those with above-average fears of injury will readily acquire a phobia to anything they think might injure them.  Since there are many situations that can be thought of as dangerous, people who are sensitive to injury tend to acquire many fears.  The anx...

Jaden was an eight year old boy who loved superheroes, space games, and baseball. A sensitive child and early reader, he had devoured the entire "Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief" series by the end of his second grade year.What Jaden didn't know was that his dad and mom had been growing apart. When a not-to-be-passed-up business opportunity took dad across the country, they decided to end the marriage. They wanted it to be amicable, and tried to handle it in a way that would be least harmful to Jaden. They told him they loved him, but needed to live apart, and assured him that daddy would visit on school vacations and during the summer.When he heard about the divorce, Jaden cried and held onto his daddy's leg. He didn't understand what was happening or why. He didn't want daddy to go ...