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Patients who suffer from limb tremors now have the opportunity to escape that obsession thanks to a special ultrasound machine that acts on the patient's damaged brain c…
People with an identity disorder of the body are always obsessed that they have a certain part of their body, legs or eyes, so they have to find a way to eliminate it.
The impostor syndrome is a psychological phenomenon in which the sufferer is unable to perceive his achievements, but always thinks that it is due to luck.
The fear of clown or Coulrophobia is said to originate from the feeling of danger, not trusting when seeing fake smiles on the face of thick makeup of clown characters.
Is it because of weak nerves or some other reason that some of us see blood when we see blood?
Psychiatry has always been one of the hardest and least-explored specialties of medicine, with hundreds of different types of diseases, syndromes and disorders. Currentl…
If seeing a very long word makes you panic because you can't read it, you have one of the most inexplicable fears. The irony is that the disease also has a strong name:…
In an unprecedented scale study, British scientists have found out
A 14-year-old boy in Mexico was especially afraid, so much so that he tried to hide or suppress the development in ways such as restricting eating and distorting his voi…
Obsessing all other foods, 17-year-old Jennifer Radigan lives on chips and cheese.
Nightmares are becoming the subject of scientific research to understand the mechanism and find ways to eliminate bad dreams.
British scientists believe that the origin of fear of spiders comes from our ancestors.
Some people have a strong belief that they are in the process of transforming their bodies into wolves: they make a howling, scratching, feeling hair covering their bodi…
New research by American scientists shows, fear of spiders can be passed down through generations ...
94% of men interviewed said they were most worried about having baldness, exceeding the figure of 89%, obsessed about having problems in their relationship ...