Fear Not!. / Jeffrey Kluger.
by Kluger, Jeffrey; SIRS Publishing, Inc.
Material type:
BookSeries: SIRS Enduring Issues 2002Article 27Health. Publisher: Los Angeles Times Syndicate, 2001ISSN: 1522-323X;.Subject(s): Cognitive therapy | Panic disorders | Phobias | Phobias -- Treatment | Virtual reality -- Medical useDDC classification: 050 Summary: "Researchers are making enormous progress in determining what phobias are, what kinds of neurochemical storms they trigger in the brain and for what evolutionary purpose the potential for such psychic squalls was encoded into us in the first place. With this understanding has come a magic bag of treatments: exposure therapy that can stomp out a lifetime phobia in a single six-hour session; virtual-reality programs that can safely simulate the thing the phobic most fears, slowly stripping it of its power to terrorize; new medications that can snuff the brain's phobic spark before it can catch." (TIME) This article discusses the prevalence of phobias, providing a partial list of phobias as well as a questionnaire.
| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Books
|
High School - old - to delete | SIRS HEA2 27 (Browse shelf) | Available |
Browsing High School - old - to delete Shelves Close shelf browser
| No cover image available | No cover image available | No cover image available | No cover image available | No cover image available | No cover image available | No cover image available | ||
| SIRS HEA2 24 A Solitary World. / | SIRS HEA2 25 Forgiving, for Getting Better. / | SIRS HEA2 26 Wild Dreams / | SIRS HEA2 27 Fear Not!. / | SIRS HEA2 28 Regional Disturbances. / | SIRS HEA2 29 Paying Attention. / | SIRS HEA2 3 The Battle to Breathe: Asthma Steals Childhoods and Stresses Families. / |
Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2002.
Originally Published: Fear Not!, April 2, 2001; pp. 52+.
"Researchers are making enormous progress in determining what phobias are, what kinds of neurochemical storms they trigger in the brain and for what evolutionary purpose the potential for such psychic squalls was encoded into us in the first place. With this understanding has come a magic bag of treatments: exposure therapy that can stomp out a lifetime phobia in a single six-hour session; virtual-reality programs that can safely simulate the thing the phobic most fears, slowly stripping it of its power to terrorize; new medications that can snuff the brain's phobic spark before it can catch." (TIME) This article discusses the prevalence of phobias, providing a partial list of phobias as well as a questionnaire.
Records created from non-MARC resource.
There are no comments for this item.