Short ‘Tarantula’ Therapy Helps People With Spider Phobia

<p>Main Category: Anxiety / Stress
Also Included In: Psychology / Psychiatry
Article Date: 23 May 2012 0:00 PDT</p>

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<p>A singular brief therapy event for adults with a lifelong debilitating spider fear resulted in durability changes to a brains response to fear.</p>

<p>The therapy was so successful, a adults were means to reason or reason a tarantula in their unclothed hands 6 months after a treatment, reports a new Northwestern Medicine study.</p>

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This is a initial investigate to request a evident and long-term mind changes after diagnosis and to illustrate how a mind reorganizes long-term to revoke fear as a outcome of a therapy. The commentary uncover a durability efficacy of brief bearing therapy for a fear and offer new directions for treating other phobias and stress disorders.</p>...