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Phobia, Specific

Known as: simple phobia, phobias simple, phobias specific 
An anxiety disorder characterized by an intense, irrational fear cued by the presence or anticipation of a specific object or situation. Exposure to… 
National Institutes of Health

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AgoraphobiaClaustrophobiaXenophobiaZoophobia
Anxiety DisordersCognition DisordersStiff-Person Syndrome

Broader (1)

Phobic anxiety disorder

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Highly Cited
2007
Highly Cited
2007
Waiting for spiders: Brain activation during anticipatory anxiety in spider phobics
Highly Cited
2004
Highly Cited
2004
Childhood trauma, dissociation, and psychiatric comorbidity in patients with conversion disorder.
OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to evaluate dissociative disorder and overall psychiatric comorbidity in patients with… 
Review
2000
Review
2000
Mental disorders and employee sickness absence: the NEMESIS study
Abstract  Background: This study aimed to determine to what extent different forms of mental disorders are related to an… 
Highly Cited
1998
Highly Cited
1998
Criminal Victimization, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, and Comorbid Psychopathology Among a Community Sample of Women
This paper provides information on the relation between victimization status, crime factors, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD… 
Highly Cited
1997
Highly Cited
1997
Disgust and disgust sensitivity in blood-injection-injury and spider phobia.
Highly Cited
1995
Highly Cited
1995
Processing threatening information in posttraumatic stress disorder.
The authors used a modified Stroop task to study how people with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) process threatening… 
Highly Cited
1994
Highly Cited
1994
Reliability and validity of the longitudinal interval follow-up evaluation for assessing outcome of anxiety disorders.
Highly Cited
1993
Highly Cited
1993
Attentional bias and spider phobia: conceptual and clinical issues.
Highly Cited
1993
Highly Cited
1993
Alexithymia in panic disorder and simple phobia: a comparative study.
The authors found that 14 (46.7%) of 30 patients with panic disorder had alexithymia, compared with four (12.5%) of 32 patients… 
Highly Cited
1988
Highly Cited
1988
Prevalence of major depression, simple phobia, and other psychiatric disorders in patients with long-standing type I diabetes mellitus.
To examine the prevalence of psychiatric disorders in patients with long-standing type I diabetes mellitus, we assessed a series… 
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