fear of crime is a very prevalent issue today. it challenges the safety of cities. for this reason it has gained considerable attention among the sociologists and criminologists over the last 20 years. whilst men experiencing relatively high rates of violence, they report their fear of crime less than women. in the contrary women have a much greater fear of crime than men, but are victimized le...

background and aims. dental fear/anxiety as a barrier in accessing oral health care is poorly investigated in iranian children. the aims of this study were to evaluate the prevalence of dental fear and behavior management problems, as well as to examine the relationship between dental fear/anxiety and probable concomitant factors. materials and methods. mothers of 200 children aged 3-6 were par...

objective: social phobia is considered as one of the most common anxiety disorders. the researchers have been looking for the basic mechanism behind it, since determining these factors can be influential in prevention and treatment. in recent years, some of the most important personality and cognitive correlates of social phobia including neuroticism, fear of negative evaluation, anxiety sensit...

background: despite the negative effect of fear of falling during functioning and social participation of patients with parkinson' disease, so far, only few studies have investigated its effect on the quality of life in these patients. we aimed to investigate the association between fear of falling and quality of life controlling for balance impairments based on hip and ankle strategy in d...

introduction: one of the hallmark symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (ptsd) is the impaired extinction of traumatic memory. single prolonged stress (sps) has been suggested as an animal model of ptsd, since sps rats exhibited the impaired fear extinction. oxytocin (oxt) has been recently suggested as a potential pharmacotherapy for treatment of ptsd. in this study, using sps rats we inve...

introduction: effective perception of fear signals is crucial for organism survival. when threated, the organism indicates defensive behaviors. methods: elevated plus–maze has high efficiency for measurement of fear behavior and is widly used for fear behavior determination. increase in two parameters percent of openarm entries (%oae) and percent of time spent in the open-arm (%oat) in the elev...

Fear of crime is a very prevalent issue today. It challenges the safety of cities. For this reason it has gained considerable attention among the sociologists and criminologists over the last 20 years. Whilst men experiencing relatively high rates of violence, they report their fear of crime less than women. In the contrary women have a much greater fear of crime than men, but are victimized le...

introduction: anterior cruciate ligament (acl) rupture is one of the most common sport injuries. despite present progresses in conservative and surgical treatment methods for acl, the rate of return to pre-injury level (rtp) is low. fear of movement/reinjury (kinesiophobia) is a major hindrance to rtp in these patients. the aim of the following research was to investigate functional tests’ effe...