Magnetic resonance brain imaging reveals that patients with generalized social phobia respond differently than others to negative comments about themselves, according to a report in the October issue ...

Fear is one of humanity's most primitive emotions, hardwired into our brains to keep us alive. Yet some fears go far beyond ...

Many alcoholics report coexisting psychiatric disorders such as social phobia, agoraphobia, and posttraumatic stress disorder. New research indicates that childhood abuse – sexual, physical or both – ...

The trial studied phobia patients using a headset and a smartphone app treatment programme -- a combination of Virtual Reality (VR) 360-degree video exposure therapy and cognitive behavioural therapy ...

Fear is an emotional response to a perceived specific threat. Although fear is an essential survival mechanism, when it becomes persistent, it might lead to anxiety, or manifest as a specific phobia, ...

The Ghostbusters may not be afraid of no ghost, but plenty of people are. Phasmophobia is the fear of ghosts – and while there's no calendar or time constraints on phobias, Halloween and Día de los ...