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Fears and Phobias
only given a rough idea of their actual numbers in the general community. They can also cause tremendous distress and disability to people over many years. Nevertheless, there has been a tendency in the past to treat them mainly as medical curiosities and few probics benefited much from the attentions of doctors. Even recent editions of standard psychiatric textbooks have dealt very inadequatel...
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Accounts of human fears and phobias based on current conditioning models using data from adults are examined and found wanting. Instead, the characteristics of human phobias resemble the kind of learning found during the amnesic period of infancy. As certain neural systems mature, conditioning begins to exhibit adult characteristics: context dependency, sharp generalization, and rapid extinctio...
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biological data can be reduced to manageable mathematical statements. In some cases these equations describe reality with surprising accuracy. For example, analysis of mammalian bone structure reveals that small skeletons are not just scale models of skeletons of larger related species. The bones of large mammals are relatively thicker; in fact, bone thickness varies as the length raised to the...
متن کاملThe genetic epidemiology of irrational fears and phobias in men.
BACKGROUND Much of our knowledge of the role of genetic factors in the etiology of phobias comes from one population-based sample of female twins. We examined the sources of individual differences in the risks for phobias and their associated irrational fears in male twins. METHODS In personal interviews with both members of 1198 male-male twin pairs (707 monozygotic [MZ] and 491 dizygotic [D...
متن کاملSpecific and social fears in children and adolescents: separating normative fears from problem indicators and phobias.
Objective: To distinguish normative fears from problematic fears and phobias. Methods: We investigated 2,512 children and adolescents from a large community school-based study, the High Risk Study for Psychiatric Disorders. Parent reports of 18 fears and psychiatric diagnosis were investigated. We used two analytical approaches: confirmatory factor analysis (CFA)/item response theory (IRT) an...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine
سال: 1970
ISSN: 0035-9157
DOI: 10.1177/003591577006300454