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...

E research and clinical experience have demonstrated the usefulness of sedation in helping fearful patients receive dental treatment, particularly when they have urgent treatment needs. In addition, the efficacy of behavioural programmes for managing dental fears is well established. While often these two approaches are seen as oppositional, our work in Seattle, Morgantown and at King’s College...

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...

Use of intravenous sedation is increasing in the management of dental patients in consideration of accompanying diseases and patient demand for comfort and safety. We surveyed choice of sedative agent and dosage on the basis of accompanying diseases or conditions in patients receiving treatment at the Department of Dental Anesthesiology, Tokyo Dental College Chiba Hospital between 2010 and 2011...

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...

Theories of specific phobias consider classical conditioning as a central mechanism in the pathogenesis and maintenance of the disorder. Although the neuronal network underlying human fear conditioning is understood in considerable detail, no study to date has examined the neuronal correlates of fear conditioning directly in patients with specific phobias. Using functional magnet resonance imag...

Aim: This study focuses on evaluating the correlation between stress or phobia due to dental procedure and level of saliva secretion among patients coming for treatment. Materials Methods: 200 medically healthy who required local anaesthesia procedures were included. Sample collection was done at three different stages In stage1, samples collected after patient had just entered clinic discussin...

Our objective was to examine the neurobiology of social phobia from the perspectives of basic sciences, genetics, immunology, neuroendocrinology, neurotransmission and neuroimaging and to provide an integrated understanding of social phobia in the framework of a hypothetical neural circuit. Family and twin studies provide evidence that social phobia is heritable with significant genetic influen...

BACKGROUND Most neuroimaging studies of specific phobia have investigated the animal subtype. The blood-injection-injury (BII) subtype is characterized by a unique biphasic psychophysiological response, which could suggest a distinct neural substrate, but direct comparisons between phobia types are lacking. METHOD This study compared the neural responses during the presentation of phobia-spec...