CADIA » Inducing Phobia Response Using Virtual Reality (NSN 2016)

h1. Phobias

h2. Acrophobia

Definition: An abnormal fear of high places.

h2. Agoraphobia

Definition: An abnormal fear of wide-open, crowded places.

Technically speaking an anxiety disorder, not a specific phobia.

h2. Aquaphobia

Definition: An abnormal fear of water.

h2. Arachnophobia

Definition: An abnormal or pathological fear of spiders.

h2. Astraphobia (aka brontophobia and keraunophobia)

Definition: An abnormal fear of thunder and/or lightning.

h2. Blood phobia

Definition: An abnormal fear of seeing blood and/or bleeding.

h2. Claustrophobia

Definition: An abnormal fear of confined places.

h2. Coulrophobia

Definition: An abnormal fear of clowns.

An informal phobia, not listed by diagnostic manuals.

h2. Cynophobia

Definition: An abnormal fear of dogs.

h2. Dental fear (aka dentophobia)

Definition: An abnormal fear of dentists and dental procedures.

h2. Entomophobia

Definition: An abnormal fear of insects.

h2. Fear of driving (aka driving phobia)

Definition: An abnormal fear of driving.

h2. Fear of flying (aka aviophobia)

Definition: An abnormal fear of airplanes and flying.

h2. Monophobia

Definition: An abnormal fear of being alone.

h2. Mysophobia

Definition: An abnormal fear of germs and contamination.

h2. Needle phobia

Definition: An abnormal fear of needles and injections.

h2. Nyctophobia

Definition: An abnormal fear of darkness.

h2. Ophidiophobia

Definition: An abnormal fear of snakes.

h2. Pediophobia

Definition: An abnormal fear of dolls.

h2. Social phobia

Definition: An abnormal fear of social situations.

Technically speaking an anxiety disorder, not a specific phobia.

h2. Speech anxiety (aka glossophobia)

Definition: An abnormal fear of public speaking or even of speaking in general.

h2. Thanatophobia

Definition: An abnormal fear of death.

h2. Trypophobia

Definition: An abnormal fear of irregular patterns of small holes.

An informal phobia, not listed by diagnostic manuals.