Understanding The Link Between Phobias And Fatal Heart Disease
Having a phobia may increase ones likelihood of developing fatal heart disease say researchers. A new study shows this is true for women with phobic anxieties including the fear of crowded places,...
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Shy Bladder Syndrome: A Social Phobia Or Functional Disorder Of Micturition?
Paruresis manifests in an inability to urinate in public restrooms followed by a considerable avoidance behavior.Recently, a study, to be published in the Journal of iAnxiety Disorders/i (available...
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Human Hormone Cortisol Could Be Used For Treating Phobias
Phobia is an anxiety disorder characterised by extreme and irrational fear of simple things or social situations. Psychologists do not know exactly what causes this. To overcome this scientists have...
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Panic Phobias, Physical debility-"P's"in a pod?
A recent study has successfully confirmed that anxiety disorders may not be just an independent malady but oft linked to a co existent physical disorder among those who suffer from it causing marked...
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Nomophobia - No Mobile Phone Phobia
In today's busy life mobile phones or cell phones are quite indispensible. Some of us check our cell phones innumerable times a day and even carry it to the washrooms. People are often obsessed with...
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Phobia Attack: Courting Fear with Cortisol, the Stress Hormone
While Robert Bruce renewed his motivation to fight setbacks after watching a spider weave its web, after falling to the ground many a time, there are quite a few of us , who cannot look a spider in...
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Novel Way to Overcome Needle Phobia
Needle phobia or fear of needles can be overcome by decorating them with flowers, butterflies, and smiley faces according to researchers at the University of New Mexico's (UNM) Health Sciences Center....
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Oculus Rift Virtual Reality Headset Used to Treat People With Phobia
A device has been developed by a pair of engineering and computer science students at Santa Clara University to fight phobias. The pair teamed up with the university's psychology department to study...
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Social Phobia Linked to Production of Surplus Serotonin in Our Brain
Uppsala University researchers have refuted a previous study by claiming that individuals with social anxiety disorder/ social phobia have too much levels of the neurotransmitter serotonin, not too...
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Fear Of Illness Phobia Causes Angelina Jolie Syndrome
The commercialization of health issues by the media, people are experiencing Hypochondriasis or Nosophobia, the fear of illness or disease, which has led to growing healthism, a peremptory idea of...
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55-Year-Old Diabetic Woman With Severe Needle Phobia Undergoes Pancreas...
A 55-year-old British woman has become the first person in the world to have pancreas transplant due to her severe needle phobia. Brit Sue York suffered from type-1 diabetes since she was seven. She...
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Talk Therapy can Effectively Treat Social Phobia
Researchers have shown that structured talk therapy or cognitive alone has the potential to cure social phobia, in a finding that could put an end to the use of medication in the treatment of social...
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Psychotherapy may Restore Brain Changes in Patients Suffering from Social...
Treating patients suffering from a social phobia with a form of psychotherapy may remove impairments in the key brain structures that are involved in processing and regulating emotions, say...
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Tooth Decay More Likely to Occur in People who Have a Phobia of Dentists
Tooth decay or missing teeth occurs when the germs in the mouth causes severe damage to the teeth. People who may have a severe fear of the dentists are more likely to have a tooth decay or missing...
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Researchers Have Found Clue to How Fear Changes into Phobia
Ever wonder just why some people get anxious, or really scared when faced with situations that may not turn out to be dangerous? Well researchers at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in...
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Cartoons to Dispel Science Phobia for Students
New Delhi, The dry text of science books often despised by schoolchildren will now get animated with the addition of cartoon characters. In its recently published science textbook for Class 7...
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Jacqueline Kennedy Onnasis' Phobia Over Daughter's Weight Gain Revealed
Former First Lady of the United States, late Jacqueline Kennedy Onnasis, was so worried about her first daughter Caroline Kennedy's weight, that her daughter's drinking spree did not bother her even...
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Kirsten Dunst Ward Off Her Flying Phobia by Using Headphones
Actress Kirsten Dunst has revealed that she employs a very effective technique to control her fear of flying - putting on Bose headphones. The 'Spiderman' actress admitted that she's scared of...
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Work Phobia Requires Careful Treatment
A new study has found that work phobia is not related to laziness; rather it is a real illness requiring careful treatment. The researchers said that a fear of the workplace and the accompanying...
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A Girl With the World's Most Bizarre Phobias - Fear of Buttons
A 22-year-old Britain girl is battling with one of the world's most bizarre phobias - fear of buttons. Gillian Linkins can't even stand in the same room as friends and family, who wear them. The sight...
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Altered Dopamine Activity Linked to Social Phobia
Scientists in The Netherlands have unearthed evidence that altered dopamine activity in the brain may give rise to social phobia. The finding reported by researchers at the Leiden University Medical...
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Body's Natural Pain-relief System May Curb Phobias
A new study has revealed that body's natural pain killing system may aid in blocking phobias. It has long been known that combining an innocuous stimulus (such as a tone) with something aversive (such...
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'Bride to be's' strange phobia puts off Actor Gareth Heales' Wedding !
For a bride, her wedding day is supposed to be the happiest day of her life. But Brit Emma Pelling has had to postpone her big day - because she is simply too scared to walk up the aisle. Pelling, 19,...
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Oxytocin - A Promise for Victims of Social Phobia
Shy is a common word and needs no introduction. All of us have been shy at some time or the other, often as children, and have grown up to be confident adults. Yet, some people continue to 'suffer'...
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Know Your 'Celebrities' Secret Phobias !
Whether it's cockroaches or heights, spiders or flying - everyone has a fear, and if you thought that the phenomenon of phobias do not exist for celebrities, then you need to think twice. The survey...
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Fear of Spiders and Scared of the Web: Dilemma for Oz Researchers Offering...
From fear of spiders to fear of the website crashing! Unbelievably, researchers responsible for creating a website that offers free online treatment for fear of spiders (arachnophobia) are now scared...
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Let Your Child Conquer the Phobia by Facing It Boldly
Does extreme fear or anxieties hinder your child's normal activities? Now, new research has suggested a parenting tool that might help children beat their fears - facing them. The study says that the...
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Depression and Social Phobia Fuel Teen Internet Addiction
A recent report suggests that teenagers who have psychiatric symptoms such as attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), social phobia, hostility and depression could be more prone to develop an...
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Experts Dismiss China's HIV Phobia as Prostitute Guilt
A mystery illness with HIV-like symptoms has been reported by hundreds of Chinese, but doctors believe it is just "HIV phobia" caused by guilt from having sex with prostitutes. Many patients suspect...
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Bizzare Sexual Phobia Prevents Brit Woman from Having Sex Indoors
Danielle Vincely has a bizarre sexual phobia that prevents her from having sex indoors. The 24-year-old says her sexual claustrophobia ruins her love life as partners soon get tired of her adventurous...
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Dental Phobia
Dental phobia can cause such intense traumatic anxiety that a patient may even cancel a dental visit, according to a survey. Earlier studies had established that the stress that people go through is...
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Divorce Phobia is Preventing Young Couples from Getting Married
Many young couples fear the ravages of divorce and are afraid of getting married, a new study has suggested. The new research by demographers at Cornell University and the University of Central...
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Meeting 324 Facebook Friends Helps Woman Beat Phobia
To overcome her debilitating fear of open spaces, crowds and uncontrolled situations, an agoraphobic woman traveled all over the world to meet all 324 of her Facebook friends. Arlynn Presser, a...
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Sharing Childbirth Experience on Social Media May Up Pregnancy Phobia
Horror experiences of childbirth shared by new mothers on online and social media platforms could be driving the rise in a pathological terror of pregnancy and childbirth called tokophobia leading to...
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Virtual Reality: New, Promising Tool for Reducing Fears and Phobia in Autism
In a virtual reality environment, autistic adults showed real-life, functional improvement after a combination treatment approach that included graded exposure to fear and anxiety-producing...
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