Specific Phobia
Resources for Patients and Caregivers
Specific phobia is an intense, irrational fear of something that poses little or no actual danger. Although adults with phobias may realize that these fears are irrational, even thinking about facing the feared object or situation brings on severe anxiety symptoms.
Cluster Number:
Wiki Number: 46 Specific Phobia
Diagnosis:
US Patients: 10% extreme avoidance of someone or something
World Patients: 12% sometime in life
Sex Ratio: M1;W2
Age Onset: Children diagnosed with a specific phobia are likely to have life-long psychological problems.
Brain Area:May have inceased autonomic nervous-muscle tension, sweating or desire to leave the situation.
Symptoms: an anxiety disorder with irrational fear linked to a specific object or situation.
Progression: These affect work, daily routines and relationships. They may show discomfort, fear or panic.
Causes:
Medications: Some medications are used.
Therapies: cognitive, exposure, flooding, modeling, or systematic desensitization.
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Resources for Physicians, Counselors and Researchers
4 CURRENT ARTICLES
FROM PUBMED
The world-wide medical research
reports chosen for each diagnosis
Clicking each title opens the
PubMed article’s summary-abstract.
- Understanding Mechanisms that Maintain Social Anxiety Disorder in Autistic Individuals Through the Clark and Wells (1995) Model and Beyond: A Systematic Reviewby Jiedi Lei on November 19, 2024
Given the high co-occurrence of social anxiety in autism, no reviews to date have explored how cognitive and behavioural mechanisms identified to maintain social anxiety in non-autistic individuals may operate in autistic individuals. This systematic review evaluated: (1) empirical evidence underlying the Clark and Wells (1995) Cognitive Model of Social Anxiety in autistic individuals; (2) how vulnerability factors identified from autism literature (beyond core autistic traits) may be associated...
- Executive Functioning, Internalizing and Externalizing Symptoms: Understanding Developmental Dynamics Through Panel Network Approachesby René Freichel on November 18, 2024
CONCLUSION: The present findings emphasize the importance of targeting depressive problems in early adolescence to prevent a spiral of different internalizing symptoms from arising later on.
- The microglial innate immune receptor TREM2 participates in fear memory formation through excessive prelimbic cortical synaptic pruningby Le-le Zhang on November 15, 2024
INTRODUCTION: Fear memory formation has been implicated in fear- and stress-related psychiatric disorders, including post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and phobias. Synapse deficiency and microglial activation are common among patients with PTSD, and induced in animal models of fear conditioning. Increasing studies now focus on explaining the specific mechanisms between microglia and synapse deficiency. Though newly-identified microglia regulator triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells...
- SKATZOCHOIROPHOBIA (FEAR OF HEDGEHOGS) IS A RARE FORM OF A SPECIFIC PHOBIA. A CASE REPORTby A T Bakare on November 15, 2024
CONCLUSION: This case report may help in creating awareness and helping clinicians be on the lookout for skatzochoirophobia, which may help in early detection and prompt treatment.