We fear driverless cars more than student drivers, perhaps because they challenge our need to be in control. Like infants, we ...

Researchers at the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre (SWC) at UCL have looked at how the brain learns to suppress responses to fear, ...

Specific phobias are out-of-proportion fears to objects, animals or situations, and fortunately, they can be treated.

The students also sang a special song for Chuck, “Shadow Phobia.” “We have to thank Chuck for making this day possible.

Fear is hardwired into our brains from the moment we’re born. Loud noises and creepy-crawly insects just naturally give us […] ...

A waitress has revealed she has a tomato sauce phobia — a rather inconvenient fear for someone in the food service industry. Alexandriah Govan, 23, revealed how her "fear of ketchup" has ...

Researchers identified the mechanism mice use to overcome instinctive fear, saying it may help research for people with disorders such as PTSD, anxiety and phobias.

There's an unsettling suggestion of something beneath Moira Jacobson's calm exterior throughout Dept. Q. Early in the series, her arachnophobia is crisply indicated.

A British mother says her extreme phobia of vomit has left her suicidal — and unable to leave the house. Alex Sim-Wise, 43, says the crippling fear, known as emetophobia, began when she was ...

The truth about food phobias – and why they’re a lot scarier than you realise Assume that having a phobia of a particular food means just disliking it? Think again. Charlotte Cripps meets ...