Social phobia is a common disorder associated with significant psychosocial impairment, representing a substantial public health problem largely determined by the high prevalence, and the lifelong chronicity. Social phobia starts in early childhood or adolescence and is often comorbid with depression, other anxiety disorders, alcohol and substance abuse or eating disorders. This cascade of como...

BACKGROUND Specific phobia is the most prevalent anxiety disorder in the community and is associated with substantial impairment. Comorbidity with physical diseases is assumed and has important implications for etiology, treatment, or prevention of the comorbid conditions. However, due to methodological issues data are limited and subtypes of specific phobia have not been investigated yet. We e...

Blood injury and injection (BII) phobia is a unique phobia associated with a diphasic cardiovascular response. The aim of this survey was to report the prevalence of BII phobia, its heritability, and clinical characteristics among the males and females in the Indian subcontinent. An interview and a survey were conducted using a developed BII phobia 21-item questionnaire among 3261 participant m...

OBJECTIVE To determine the frequency of nonspecific clinical signs in dogs with separation anxiety, thunderstorm phobia, noise phobia, or any combination of these conditions and determine whether these conditions are associated in dogs. DESIGN Case series. ANIMALS 141 dogs. PROCEDURE Diagnoses were established using specific criteria. Owners of dogs completed a questionnaire on how freque...

Introduction. Social phobia is the most prevalent and chronic type of anxiety disorder worldwide and it affects occupational, educational, and social affairs of the individual. Social phobia is also known for its association with depression and substance use disorder. Objective. The aim of this study was to assess the prevalence and associated factors of social phobia among high school students...

Specific phobia of the animal subtype has been employed as a model disorder exploring the neurocircuitry of anxiety disorders, but evidence is lacking whether the detected neural response pattern accounts for all animal subtypes, nor across other phobia subtypes. The present study aimed at directly comparing two subtypes of specific phobia: snake phobia (SP) representing the animal, and dental ...

BACKGROUND General population data were used to study co-morbidities between lifetime social phobia and mood disorders. METHODS Data come from the US National Comorbidity Survey (NCS). RESULTS Strong associations exist between lifetime social phobia and major depressive disorder (odds ratio 2.9), dysthymia (2.7) and bipolar disorder (5.9). Odds ratios increase in magnitude with number of so...

this study compared focus attention and interpretation biases in social phobia patients and normal subject. in this study with causal- comparative method 100 subjects with social phobia and 100 normal individuals have compared. subjects were selected through cluster sampling among tabriz university students. data scale of social phobia, attention bias and interpretation of the data was performe...

This paper is directed toward the potential relationship between the psychological construct of Social Phobia and several communication traits. The results of the present research indicate that communication apprehension, and to a lesser extent, behavioral shyness, self-perceived communication competence, and assertiveness are substantially related with two of the subconstructs of social phobia...

Evolution of the Concept In the late 1970s, Marks and Bebbington described “space phobia” in four elderly women who had intense fear of falling “when there was no visible support at hand or on seeing space cues while driving”.1 These authors speculated that space phobia “might be a hitherto unrecognized syndrome or an unusual variant of agoraphobia”. In 1982, Murphy and Isaacs published their c...