Threatening stimuli have varying effects, including reaction time (RT) increase in working memory tasks. This could reflect disruption of or, alternatively, a reversible state freezing. In the current series experiments, slowing due to anticipated threat was studied using cued Virtual Attack Emotional Sternberg Task (cVAEST). this task visually neutr...

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...