Throughout history, no entertainment genre has consistently and pertinently captured the phobias and paranoias of a ...

While some fears, like of heights or spiders, are quite common, others are much more unusual and can even seem downright ...

New research shows how the brain overcomes instinctive fear and has helped scientists get a better understanding of how our ...

The superheroes of the DC Universe may seem all-powerful, but believe it or not, many of them struggle with irrational fears ...

Researchers have unveiled the precise brain mechanisms that enable animals to overcome instinctive fears. The study in mice could have implications for developing therapeutics for fear-related ...

Published today in Science, the study in mice could have implications for developing therapeutics for fear-related disorders such as phobias, anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The ...

For some children and their parents, however, it can be difficult to determine when fears are typical and when they are developing into more serious phobias or anxiety disorders. Fears are a ...

Some evidence suggests it may be possible to block or forget unwanted memories. However, more research is necessary to understand how and why this happens. When an unwanted memory intrudes on the ...

“It’s crippling,” he says. These phobias may sound almost comical to some, but these sufferers are blighted by stress and anxiety that has a debilitating impact. Approximately 10 million ...

Using this approach, we reconsider what fear is, how it is (dys)regulated in specific phobias, and we propose a therapeutic model based on a combination of subliminal and supraliminal desensitization ...