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I commend you for your report on phobias [SCIENCE, April 2]. I have four of them--fear of bridges, heights, clowns and crickets. Your story adequately covered...

Overcoming Phobias.

Let's get this out of the way right up front: I'm afraid of people eating. Some people are scared of snakes or flying or heights or other things that can...

What Are We Afraid Of?

We use search engines for a variety of tasks; from locating that hard-to-find toner cartridge for an obsolete printer, that last informational nugget for a...

Doctor's Orders: Jun. 13, 2005

THE SPRAY-ON TRUST-ME HORMONE In a study of 200 students playing a game with real money, researchers found that the hormone oxytocin, applied as a nasal spray,...

Fear Not! For millions of sufferers of phobias, science is offering new treatments - and new hope

It's not easy moving through the world when you're terrified of electricity. "Donna," 45, a writer, knows that better than most. Get her in the vicinity of an...

Fear Not!

It's not easy moving through the world when you're terrified of electricity. "Donna," 45, a writer, knows that better than most. Get her in the vicinity of an...

Anxiety: What You Can Do

BEHAVIORAL THERAPY When the brain sets anxiety alarms ringing, our first inclination is to find the off switch. Behavioral scientists take the opposite approach...

Phobias From A to Z

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U V W X Z A ablutophobia: fear of bathing acarophobia: ... itching acerophobia: .....

Coffee Chronicles

JOE'S BLOWS Last week researchers reported that coffee might help prevent Parkinson's disease. So is the caffeine bean good for you or not? Over the years,...

Behavior: Polling for Mental Health

A $15 million study shows that one in five has a disorder Psychiatrists have long assumed that depression is the most common mental problem in the U.S. That...