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Anxiety disorders are common in adolescents (ages 12 to 18) and contribute to a range of impairments. There has been speculation that adolescents with anxiety are at risk for being treatment nonresponders. In this review, the authors... more
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      Anxiety DisordersFearTreatment OutcomeAdolescent
Over the course of natural history, countless animal species have evolved adaptive behavioral systems to cope with dangerous situations and promote survival. Emotional memories are central to these defense systems because they are rapidly... more
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      FearAnxietyMemoryBrain
O objetivo geral do Diagnóstico da Violência e Criminalidade do Município de Itabuna é aprofundar a análise dos principais problemas de violência e criminalidade, bem como a percepção da população sobre os mesmos, buscando identificar... more
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      StatisticsViolenceFearBrazil
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      FearPalliative CareQuality of lifeForecasting
Background and objective: Several cognitive-behavioral factors contribute to the persistence of pain disability in patients with chronic back pain. Fear-avoidance beliefs and fear of movement/(re)injury in particular have been shown to be... more
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      FearTreatment OutcomeMedicineLow back pain
González, et al. the context or footshock components memory consolidation of inhibitory avoidance training but not of Glucocorticoid administration into the dorsal stratium facilitates Related Content
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      FearLearningMemory ConsolidationMemory
Ultrasonic vocalization (USV) was found useful for differentiating fear and anxiety in rats. These affective states were established through a Pavlovian conditioning procedure. Danger stimulus, preceding unavoidable tail shock, elicited... more
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      Animal BehaviorFearStressUltrasound
Background: Results from HIV vaccine trials on potential volunteers will contribute to global efforts to develop an HIV vaccine. The purpose of this study among police officers in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, was to explore the underlying... more
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      FearFocus GroupsPoliceQualitative Research
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      FearPolitical Uses of Fear
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      NursingFearHealth CarePrejudice
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      DeathFearMedical OncologyPhysicians
Measures of PTSD and comorbidity were obtained at intake and 9-month follow-up. Measures also included potential mediators of therapeutic alliance, social support, problematic/undermining relationships and fear of emotion. Path analyses... more
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      PsychologyAngerMental HealthFear
The medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) has emerged as a key structure involved in the modulation of fear behavior over the past few decades. Anatomical, functional and electrophysiological studies have begun to shed light on the precise... more
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      NeurosciencePsychologyFearMedicine
Background The levels and experiences of harassment of people with mental health problems in the community compared with those of the general population have not been explored. Aims To measure the levels and experience of harassment... more
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      Mental HealthFearHealth EducationPolice
Mutations of the fragile X mental retardation 1 (FMR1) gene are the genetic cause of fragile X syndrome (FXS). The presence of significant socioemotional problems has been well documented in FXS although the brain basis of those deficits... more
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      Cognitive ScienceFearMagnetic Resonance ImagingAdolescent
The Meaning Maintenance Model asserts that following a meaning threat, people will affirm any meaning,frameworks,that are available. Three experiments tested 1) whether people affirm alternative meaning,frameworks,after reading absurdist... more
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      PsychologyCognitive SciencePerceptionArt
The selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) are now being employed in the treatment of the full spectrum of anxiety disorders. In comparative trials, the SSRIs are proving to be equal or superior in efficacy to traditional... more
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      Anxiety DisordersFearBiological SciencesBiological Psychiatry
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      FearScienceApoptosisMultidisciplinary
This study explored the role of threat and contamination-related associations in spider phobia. Treatment-seeking (n ¼ 60) and non-phobic (n ¼ 30) individuals completed threat and disgustrelated Implicit Association Tests (IATs). Phobic... more
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      PsychologyCognitive ScienceFearTreatment
One of the major limitations in the use of genetically modified mice for studying cognitive functions is the lack of regional and temporal control of gene function. To overcome these limitations, a forebrain-specific promoter was c o m b... more
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      ElectrophysiologyFearSpatial MemoryLong Term Potentiation
The anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) is thought to be the neuroanatomical interface between emotion and cognition. Because effective emotion-cognition interactions are essential to optimal decision making, clarifying how the functionality... more
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      Decision MakingFearMagnetic Resonance ImagingAging
After reading vignettes, a group of spider-phobic girls (n=18) and a group of nonphobic girls (n=18) rated the subjective probability of spiders entering their private living space, their tendency to approach and make physical contact,... more
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      PsychologyAnxiety DisordersFearPersonality Assessment
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      Animal BehaviorFearScienceMultidisciplinary
Objective. To investigate prospectively whether painrelated fear predicts future perceived disability and participation in patients with acute low back pain (LBP).
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      Primary CareBiomedical EngineeringFearSpine
P revious studies indicate that people respond defensively to threatening health information, especially when the information challenges self-relevant goals. The authors investigated whether reduced acceptance of self-relevant health risk... more
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      PsychologyCognitive ScienceHealth PromotionEvidence Based Medicine
The present study investigated the contribution of parental modeling to the fearfulness of children. Forty children (aged 9-12) who were referred to an outpatient treatment centre filled out the trait version of the Spielberger... more
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      PsychologyAnxiety DisordersFearSocial learning
j Abstract Background The aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence of self-reported social phobia in a community sample of Swedish adolescents in junior high school, at the risk-period for developing social phobia. Of... more
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      PsychologyCognitive ScienceFearAdolescent
"Scototaxis, the preference for dark environments in detriment of bright ones, is an index of anxiety in zebrafish. In this work, we analyzed avoidance of the white compartment by analysis of the spatiotemporal pattern of exploratory... more
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      FearAnxietyMotivationScototaxis
African American women are more likely than other women to be diagnosed with breast cancer at a young age, to be diagnosed at a late stage, and to die from the disease. Yet we see evidence of irregular screening and follow-up. Previous... more
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      PsychologyDecision MakingFearQualitative Research
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      Occupational TherapyFearQuality of lifeExercise therapy
Pavlovian conditioning is the process by which we learn relationships between stimuli and thus constitutes a basic building block for how the brain constructs representations of the world. We first review the major concepts of Pavlovian... more
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      FearBiologyMedicineLearning
The precise contribution of visual information to contextual fear-learning and discrimination has remained elusive. To better understand this contribution, we coupled the context pre-exposure facilitation effect (CPFE) fear conditioning... more
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      PsychologyCognitive ScienceFearBiology
This international study in 42 countries inquired children’s perception of the coronacrisis, their knowledge on COVID-19 and the role the media play in this. It Shows that children who are better informed about COVID-19 and can identify... more
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      Media StudiesFearPolitical ScienceChildren and Media
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      CommunicationHealth CommunicationHealth PromotionFear
This study evaluated the causes of declining frequency of voluntary blood donations among educated elites as seen at the blood bank of University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital, Maiduguri, Nigeria, over the last decade. The number of... more
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      FearNigeriaSocial ClassNutritional Status
Introduction Although the fear of cancer recurrence (FCR) is to varying degrees almost universal in cancer survivors, few studies have been carried out specifically on this issue partly because of the complexity and the heterogeneity of... more
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      Coping StrategiesFearCancerCancer Survivorship
Aim/Objectives/Background Considerable attention has been paid to assessing the risk factors for the development of disability following neck pain (NP) in the general population, but we still lack knowledge regarding disability in NP... more
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      FearNeck PainRisk factorsClinical Sciences
The present study investigated the contribution of parental modeling to the fearfulness of children. Forty children (aged 9-12) who were referred to an outpatient treatment centre filled out the trait version of the Spielberger... more
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      PsychologyAnxiety DisordersFearSocial learning
The aim of the present study was to compare the subjectively reported and objectively assessed activityrelated characteristics of patients with Chronic Low Back Pain (CLBP) who were classified according to their scores on the Patterns of... more
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      FearChronic PainPhysical ActivityLow back pain
The purpose of this study was to identify the prevalence of fear and anxiety in patients awaiting coronary artery bypass grafting and the factors associated with high fear and high anxiety.
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      NursingPainDepressionFear
Background: Primary anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction is known to have excellent outcomes, but many patients do not return to their preinjury level of sport participation. Previous studies have used subjective outcome scores... more
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      Mechanical EngineeringBiomedical EngineeringDecision MakingPersonality
Tamoxifen-induced mutagenesis via the so-called CreER T2 fusion enzyme is a key technology for the inducible gene knockout in the adult murine brain. However, it requires a subchronic transient treatment with high doses of the... more
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      Animal BehaviorDepressionFearBehavior
Aims: To assess parental attitudes towards type 1 diabetes clinical trials (T1DCTs) and factors that impact willingness to enroll their children with and without diabetes. Methods: A cross-sectional survey of parents of children with type... more
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      TrustFearInformed ConsentMedicine
To develop and test the ability of a screening instrument to identify subgroups among primary healthcare patients with musculoskeletal pain. The Pain Belief Screening Instrument covers pain intensity, disability, self-efficacy, fear... more
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      Rehabilitation MedicinePainFearSelf Efficacy
Drawing from an approach-avoidance perspective, we examine the relationships between subordinates' perceptions of abusive supervision, fear, defensive silence, and ultimately abusive supervision at a later time point. We also account... more
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      MarketingPsychologyApplied PsychologyFear
BackgroundFear of recurrence (FoR) following head and neck cancer (HNC) treatment is a major patient concern but is infrequently discussed in outpatient settings and may cause significant detrimental effect on patient psychological... more
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      PsychologyFearQuality of lifeAnxiety
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      PsychologyCognitive ScienceLawViolence
The present study explores driving skills in a group of 50 media-recruited driving-fearful and 50 control drivers, all of whom were women. Participants completed an on-road practical driving assessment with a professional driving... more
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      PsychologyPsychometricsFearAnxiety
This study examined children's media use (i.e., amount of television and Internet usage) and relationships to children's perceptions of societal threat and personal vulnerability. The sample consisted of 90 community youth aged... more
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      PsychologyCognitive ScienceTerrorismSocial Problems
The amygdala has received great interest as a possible neurophysiological substrate of bipolar disorder (BD). This review summarizes information about the structure and function of the amygdala with attention to its role in experienced... more
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      PsychologyCognitive ScienceBipolar DisorderFear