Abstract Although Exposure Therapy (ET) is the first-line treatment of Specific Phobia (SP),
there is no clear consensus on which factors influence its success, and thus on how to …

Anxiety disorders constitute the largest group of mental disorders with a high individual and
societal burden. Neurobiological markers of treatment response bear potential to improve …

Fear of flying, its nature, prevalence, etiology and treatment, has been the subject of a
substantial quantity of research over the past 30 years. With the exception of a dated review …

Establishing quantifiable biological markers associated with anxiety will increase the
objectivity of phenotyping and enhance genetic research of anxiety disorders. Heart rate …

The present study aimed to examine changes in psychophysiological arousal from baseline
to a stressor phase (reactivity) and from the stressor phase to a second resting phase …

Daily life entails having to cope with many stressful situations. Although stress-related
reactions could sometimes provoke impairments in physiological processes due to the …

The cardiac autonomic dysfunction has been reported in patients with schizophrenia. Heart
rate variability (HRV) provides non-invasive indices of cardiac autonomic modulation. This …

This meta-analysis aimed at gathering and summarising the findings on nonlinear
biomarkers in the field of emotional disorders under the hypothesis that diseased systems …

Background We examined the longitudinal associations of autonomic nervous system (ANS)
and hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis rest and reactivity measures with anxiety and …

Physiological sensations and discomfort constitute the major symptoms reported by
aviophobics. Anxiety sensitivity (AS) seems to moderate the relationship between self …