The present study tested the hypothesis that anxious apprehension involves more left- than right-hemisphere activity and that anxious arousal is associated with the opposite pattern. Behavioral and fMRI responses to threat stimuli in an emotional Stroop task were examined in nonpatient groups reporting anxious apprehension, anxious arousal, or neither. Reaction times were longer for negative th...

background : gastrointestinal disorders are common complaints for which endoscopy is one of the most important diagnostic procedures. anxiety is an unpleasant, ambiguous feeling of apprehension and fear of an unknown origin that occurs during anxious and previously stressful situations or during an injury. lack of sufficient information and fear of pain can cause anxiety prior to an endoscopy, ...

The clinical case report is a popular genre in medical writing. While authors and editors have debated the justification for the clinical case report, few have attempted to examine the long history of this genre in medical literature. By reviewing selected literature and presenting and discussing excerpts of clinical case reports from Egyptian antiquity to the 20th century, we illustrate the pr...

Communication apprehension is a broad-based fear or anxiety related to the act of communication held by a large"number of individuals. High communication apprehensives are persons for whom apprehension about participating in communication outweighs the projected gain from communicating in a given situation (Phillips, 1968; McCroskey, 1970). Such persons anticipate negative feelings and outcomes...

The aim of this study is to assess if changes in dysfunctional beliefs and self-efficacy precede changes in panic apprehension in the treatment of panic disorder with agoraphobia. Subjects participated in a larger study comparing the effectiveness of cognitive restructuring and exposure. Four variables were measured: (a) the strength of each subject's main belief toward the consequence of a pan...

This study aims to investigate high school students’ geometry learning by focusing on mathematical creativity and its relationship with visualisation geometrical figure apprehension. The presentation of a task influence is the main topic investigated. authors combine theory research in creativity, considering Roza Leikin’s work MultipleSolution Tasks apprehension, mainly Raymond Duval’s work. ...

The social loafing effect, that subjects work harder alone than in groups, was contrasted against the use of two motivational techniques. Subjects were 80 undergraduate students at a midwestern university. A 2 x 2 factorial design was employed contrasting the use of group goals with the salience of evaluation apprehension. Subjects, working in groups of four, were asked to generate possible use...