OBJECTIVES This study is aimed to determine the frequency of social phobia among a group of subjects with essential tremor, to compare subject groups with and without social phobia with regard to the level of social phobia and disability, and to study the effect of the severity of social phobia on disability in essential tremor. METHOD 45 subjects, diagnosed with essential tremor were include...

phobia can lead to heart attack according to studies in the uk, risk of anemia in patients with phobia is increasing. the results of research on the 1457 men 40 to 67 years old are shown that the anxiety caused by phobia is highly dependent to ischemic heart disease.   before this study , patients that had suffered from a heart attack did not show higher levels of anxiety more than others. this...

The relationship between shyness, social phobia and other psychiatric disorders was examined. The prevalence of social phobia was significantly higher among shy persons (18%) compared with non-shy persons (3%). However, the majority of shy individuals (82%) were not socially phobic. A significant and positive correlation was found between the severity of shyness and the presence of social phobi...

to determine the prognostic value of response to treatment in patients with focal segmental glomerulo-sclerosis. fsgs includes 10-15% of idiopathic nephrotic syndrome in children. bulk of evidence supports disease relationship with immune system. unfortunately, responses to immunosuppressive drugs are not desirable and progression to end-stage renal disease is common. we analyzed 62 out of 99 c...

Excessive self-criticism is a putative psychological vulnerability for depression, and recent findings suggest it may be important in social phobia as well. The present study investigated the role of self-criticism in predicting outcome to cognitivebehavior therapy for generalized social phobia. Eighty-four patients were assessed before and after treatment using a latent social phobia factor ba...

The present longitudinal study aimed to determine rate of natural recovery from DSM-IV social phobia in the community and to examine predictors of recovery. Data were derived from the Dresden Predictor Study of a representative sample of 1396 young German women. The participants completed a diagnostic interview and self-report questionnaires at two survey points approximately 1.5 years apart. O...

Previous research [Frederikson, M., Annas, P., Fisher, H. & Wik, G. (1996). Gender and age di€erences in the prevalence of speci®c fears and phobias. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 34, 33±39.] has shown that speci®c phobia symptoms of adults cluster into three subtypes: animal phobia, bloodinjection-injury phobia and environmental±situational phobia. The present study examined whether these sp...

Dense sensor event-related brain potentials were measured in participants with spider phobia and nonfearful controls during viewing of phobia-relevant spider and standard emotional (pleasant, unpleasant, neutral) pictures. Irrespective of the picture content, spider phobia participants responded with larger P1 amplitudes than controls, suggesting increased vigilance in this group. Furthermore, ...

BACKGROUND Understanding of exaggerated responsivity in specific phobia-its physiology and neural mediators-has advanced considerably. However, despite strong phenotypic evidence that prominence of specific phobia relative to co-occurring conditions (i.e., principal versus nonprincipal disorder) is associated with dramatic differences in subjective distress, there is yet no consideration of suc...