Phobic Disorders - Physiopathology
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Monday, November 23, 2009

Disentangling emotion processes in borderline personality disorder: physiological and self-reported assessment of biological vulnerability, baseline intensity, and reactivity to emotionally evocative stimuli.

30 Jul 2009 This study investigated M. Linehan's (1993) theory that individuals meeting criteria for borderline personality disorder (BPD) have high biological vulnerability to emotion dysregulation, including high baseline emotional intensity and high ... Read more...

Anxious solitude and peer exclusion predict social helplessness, upset affect, and vagal regulation in response to behavioral rejection by a friend.

29 Jun 2009 It was hypothesized that combined individual child vulnerability (anxious solitude) and interpersonal stress (peer exclusion) would predict the strongest responses to experimentally manipulated behavioral peer rejection. Results indicated that in a ... Read more...

High-frequency heart rate variability and cortico-striatal activity in men and women with social phobia.

4 Jun 2009 Identifying brain systems that regulate or modulate autonomic nervous system functions may identify pathways through which psychosocial factors can influence health and disease. Reduced high-frequency heart rate variability (HF-HRV) characterizes ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Phobic Disorders - Physiopathology'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Disentangling emotion processes in borderline personality disorder: physiological and self-reported assessment of biological vulnerability, baseline intensity, and reactivity to emotionally evocative stimuli. 30 Jul 2009
• Anxious solitude and peer exclusion predict social helplessness, upset affect, and vagal regulation in response to behavioral rejection by a friend. 29 Jun 2009
• High-frequency heart rate variability and cortico-striatal activity in men and women with social phobia. 4 Jun 2009
• Brain dynamics in spider-phobic individuals exposed to phobia-relevant and other emotional stimuli. 30 May 2009
• Reduced postural differences between phobic postural vertigo patients and healthy subjects during a postural threat. 10 Apr 2009
• Evidence-based medicine evaluation of electrophysiological studies of the anxiety disorders. 30 Mar 2009
• Cortisol-induced enhancement of emotional face processing in social phobia depends on symptom severity and motivational context. 26 Mar 2009
• Disentangling the web of fear: amygdala reactivity and functional connectivity in spider and snake phobia. 22 Mar 2009
• Long-term effects of cognitive behavior therapy on brain activation in spider phobia. 22 Mar 2009
• Phobic spider fear is associated with enhanced attentional capture by spider pictures: a rapid serial presentation event-related potential study. 2 Mar 2009
• Beyond amygdala: Default Mode Network activity differs between patients with social phobia and healthy controls. 18 Feb 2009
• Neural bases of social anxiety disorder: emotional reactivity and cognitive regulation during social and physical threat. 30 Jan 2009
• Influence of the fusiform gyrus on amygdala response to emotional faces in the non-clinical range of social anxiety. 19 Jan 2009
• Toward and away from spiders: eye-movements in spider-fearful participants. 19 Jan 2009
• Neurobiological aspects of social anxiety disorder. 30 Dec 2008
• Dopamine transporters, D2 receptors, and dopamine release in generalized social anxiety disorder. 30 Dec 2008
• Effect of mind on brain activity: evidence from neuroimaging studies of psychotherapy and placebo effect. 30 Dec 2008
• The anxiety disorder spectrum: fear imagery, physiological reactivity, and differential diagnosis. 30 Dec 2008
• MRI scans reveal altered brain response to criticism in patients with social phobia. 30 Dec 2008
• A direct comparison of effect sizes from the clinical global impression-improvement scale to effect sizes from other rating scales in controlled trials of adult social anxiety disorder. 30 Dec 2008

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Technical information about 'Phobic Disorders'

Definition: Anxiety disorders in which the essential feature is persistent and irrational fear of a specific object, activity, or situation that the individual feels compelled to avoid. The individual recognizes the fear as excessive or unreasonable.

Descriptor UI: D010698

Alternative terms: Phobic Disorders; Disorder, Phobic; Disorders, Phobic; Phobic Disorder; Phobic Neuroses; Neuroses, Phobic; Phobias; Phobia; Phobia, School; Phobias, School; School Phobia; School Phobias; Phobia, Social; Phobias, Social; Social Phobia; Social Phobias; Claustrophobia; Claustrophobias;

Allowable Qualifiers: blood; cerebrospinal fluid; chemically induced; classification; complications; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics; history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality; nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; radiography; radionuclide imaging; rehabilitation; surgery; therapy; urine; ultrasonography; virology;

Tree Number: F03.080.725;

Online Note: use PHOBIC DISORDERS to search PHOBIAS 1966-80, PHOBIC NEUROSES 1969-80, & CLAUSTROPHOBIA 1968-78

History Note: 81; was PHOBIAS 1963-80; PHOBIC NEUROSES was see under PHOBIAS 1969-80; CLAUSTROPHOBIA was see under PHOBIAS 1968-78