(Natural News) Why are human babies afraid of creepy-crawlies such as spiders or snakes? Is it something that they learn as they grow older? What about extremely young infants who have never been exposed to these creatures beforehand? According to new research from the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences (MPI CBS), the […]

(Natural News) An article in Psychology Today brought up the increasing use of virtual reality (VR) technology to treat anxiety disorders. It devoted a considerable amount of attention to Virtual Reality Graded Exposure Therapy (VRGET). VRGET is a new treatment method for anxiety. It takes advantage of increasingly cheap technology and the growing availability of […]

(Natural News) Do you struggle with an irrational fear, like acrophobia (fear of heights)? Or does your phobia come from within, like the fear of being imperfect? If you’re always stressed about being perfect or if you’re paralyzed by the constant need to be perfect, you could have atelophobia. Atelophobia is an extreme form of perfectionism […]

(Natural News) Fears can now be blocked in a split second, provided that a specific region of your brain will be stimulated magnetically. This is a novel undertaking, seeing that a lot of people these days are afflicted with all kinds of phobias; some panic the first moment that they step foot on an aircraft, […]