Specific Phobias

Association of Anxiety-Related Traits with a Polymorphism in the Serotonin Transporter Gene Regulatory Region

1996 • 5,154 citations

Functional Neuroimaging of Anxiety: A Meta-Analysis of Emotional Processing in PTSD, Social Anxiety Disorder, and Specific Phobia

2007 • 3,149 citations

Perception and the conditioned reflex

1964 • 2,207 citations

Surprise!… Surprise?

1981 • 1,789 citations

Neurons in medial prefrontal cortex signal memory for fear extinction

2002 • 1,785 citations

Context and Behavioral Processes in Extinction: Table 1.

2004 • 1,677 citations

Conscious and unconscious emotional learning in the human amygdala

1998 • 1,673 citations

Neural Mechanisms of Extinction Learning and Retrieval

2007 • 1,555 citations

Size and burden of mental disorders in Europe—a critical review and appraisal of 27 studies

2005 • 1,464 citations

Optimizing inhibitory learning during exposure therapy

2007 • 1,424 citations

An Insular View of Anxiety

2006 • 1,211 citations

The Orienting Reflex in Humans

2021 • 1,111 citations

Cognitive Enhancers as Adjuncts to Psychotherapy

2004 • 1,058 citations

The Amygdala: a functional analysis

2000 • 969 citations

Fears, phobias, and rituals

1987 • 963 citations

Natural selective attention: Orienting and emotion

2008 • 910 citations

Activation of the left amygdala to a cognitive representation of fear

2001 • 887 citations

Attention and Orienting

2013 • 801 citations

Dissociating Valence of Outcome from Behavioral Control in Human Orbital and Ventral Prefrontal Cortices

2003 • 625 citations

Evidence-based guidelines for the pharmacological treatment of anxiety disorders: recommendations from the British Association for Psychopharmacology

2005 • 606 citations

Relative efficacy of desensitization and modeling approaches for inducing behavioral, affective, and attitudinal changes.

1969 • 566 citations

Applied relaxation: Description of a coping technique and review of controlled studies

1987 • 564 citations

Augmentation of Exposure Therapy With D-Cycloserine for Social Anxiety Disorder

2006 • 559 citations

The Genetic Epidemiology of Phobias in Women

1992 • 542 citations

Treatment of specific phobia in adults

2006 • 535 citations

A psychophysiological analysis of fear modification using an automated desensitization procedure.

1970 • 471 citations

Psychological approaches in the treatment of specific phobias: A meta-analysis

2008 • 464 citations

Virtual reality treatment versus exposure in vivo: a comparative evaluation in acrophobia

2002 • 457 citations

Fear‐Potentiated Startle in Humans: Effects of Anticipatory Anxiety on the Acoustic Blink Reflex

1991 • 454 citations

Is Avoiding an Aversive Outcome Rewarding? Neural Substrates of Avoidance Learning in the Human Brain

2006 • 450 citations

One-session treatment for specific phobias

1989 • 449 citations

From Fear to Safety and Back: Reversal of Fear in the Human Brain

2008 • 419 citations

Anxiety disorders: psychological approaches to theory and treatment

1999 • 416 citations

A controlled study of virtual reality exposure therapy for the fear of flying.

2000 • 354 citations

Learning fears by observing others: the neural systems of social fear transmission

2007 • 321 citations

Mechanisms involved in the observational conditioning of fear.

1993 • 310 citations

Effects of cognitive-behavioral therapy on brain activation in specific phobia

2005 • 262 citations

Brief and Prolonged Flooding

1973 • 244 citations

A physiological model of phobic anxiety and desensitization

1968 • 239 citations

Genetic Gating of Human Fear Learning and Extinction

2009 • 238 citations

Fears and phobias: reliability and heritability

1999 • 235 citations

Saving clinicians' time by delegating routine aspects of therapy to a computer: a randomized controlled trial in phobia/panic disorder

2004 • 233 citations

One-session therapist-directed exposure vs. self-exposure in the treatment of spider phobia

1991 • 221 citations

Specificity in Familial Aggregation of Phobic Disorders

1995 • 215 citations

Non-associative fear acquisition: a review of the evidence from retrospective and longitudinal research

2002 • 213 citations

Specific fears and phobias

1998 • 213 citations

Effects of varied-stimulus exposure training on fear reduction and return of fear

1998 • 198 citations

Brain activation to phobia-related pictures in spider phobic humans: an event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging study

2003 • 188 citations

Twelve-month follow-up of virtual reality and standard exposure therapies for the fear of flying.

2002 • 183 citations

Repeated exposure of flight phobics to flights in virtual reality

2001 • 178 citations

Imaginal Flooding and Exposure to Real Phobic Situations: Treatment Outcome with Agoraphobic Patients

1976 • 164 citations

A randomized controlled trial of the effect of d-cycloserine on exposure therapy for spider fear

2006 • 160 citations

Flooding in imagination vs flooding in vivo: A comparison with agoraphobics

1975 • 156 citations

One-session therapist directed exposure vs two forms of manual directed self-exposure in the treatment of spider phobia

1995 • 149 citations

Emotional imagery and the differential diagnosis of anxiety.

1988 • 149 citations

The repeated confrontation with videotapes of spiders in multiple contexts attenuates renewal of fear in spider-anxious students

2007 • 148 citations

Manipulations of exposure-based therapy to reduce return of fear: a replication

2000 • 145 citations

Physiological habituation to continuous phobic stimulation

1972 • 140 citations

One vs five sessions of exposure and five sessions of cognitive therapy in the treatment of claustrophobia

2001 • 136 citations

Applied tension, exposure in vivo, and tension-only in the treatment of blood phobia

1991 • 135 citations

Brain activation and defensive response mobilization during sustained exposure to phobia‐related and other affective pictures in spider phobia

2007 • 123 citations

Comparison between one-session psychological treatment and benzodiazepine in dental phobia.

2000 • 120 citations

One versus five sessions of applied tension in the treatment of blood phobia

1996 • 119 citations

Orienting Reflexes and Significance: A Reply to O'Gorman

1979 • 115 citations

Psychophysiological Assessment During Exposure in Driving Phobic Patients.

2005 • 109 citations

Autonomic characteristics of nonclinical panic and blood phobia

1993 • 105 citations

One-session cognitive treatment of dental phobia: preparing dental phobics for treatment by restructuring negative cognitions

1995 • 101 citations

Anxiety disorders in mothers and their children: Prospective longitudinal community study

2008 • 91 citations

Applied tension, applied relaxation, and the combination in the treatment of blood phobia

1989 • 90 citations

Massed vs. spaced exposure sessions in the treatment of agoraphobia

1980 • 89 citations

The reduction of claustrophobia—I

1992 • 86 citations

Guided mastery and performance desensitization treatments for severe acrophobia.

1985 • 83 citations

Acute and delayed effects of alprazolam on flight phobics during exposure

1997 • 81 citations

A maintenance program for behavioral treatment of anxiety disorders

1989 • 79 citations

Long-term effects on dental care behavior and dental health after treatments for dental fear.

1993 • 77 citations

Spacing of exposure sessions in treatment of agoraphobia and simple phobia

1990 • 72 citations

Long-term effects of cognitive behavior therapy on brain activation in spider phobia

2009 • 71 citations

One-session virtual reality exposure treatment for fear of flying: 1-Year follow-up and graduation flight accompaniment effects

2005 • 70 citations

A chromosome 14 risk locus for simple phobia: results from a genomewide linkage scan

2003 • 63 citations

Comparison of behavioral and cognitive-behavioral one-session exposure treatments for small animal phobias

2004 • 54 citations

A clinical study of spider phobia: prediction of outcome after self-help and therapist-directed treatments

1998 • 51 citations

Active-imaginal exposure: examination of a new behavioral treatment for cynophobia (dog phobia)

2003 • 48 citations

Effects of cognitive therapy, applied relaxation and nitrous oxide sedation. A five-year follow-up study of patients treated for dental fear

2003 • 41 citations

Animal phobias versus claustrophobias: Exteroceptive versus interoceptive cues

1992 • 41 citations

Multicomponent standardized treatment programs for fear of flying: Description and effectiveness

2002 • 38 citations

Specific phobia 10-16 years after treatment

1999 • 24 citations

Psychopathology: Experimental Models

1980 • 10 citations

Reduction of anxiety in aquaphobics.

1981 • 7 citations