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med.uni-heidelberg.de Objective: To investigate systematically the rate and type of phobia in stiff man syndrome and its variants, and to compare patients with stiff man syndrome with and without ...

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Strictly Come Dancing judge Shirley Ballas has revealed that she has a phobia of "untidy spaces" ahead of starring in Netflix series Celebrity Bear Hunt. Ballas, 64, is among the line-up of 12 ...

Strictly Come Dancing’s head judge Shirley Ballas has revealed a phobia she has ahead of starring in the new Netflix series Celebrity Bear Hunt. Ballas, 64, is among the line-up of 12 famous ...

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Pest cockroaches may lead to significant psychological stress for people who have insect-related phobia. Besides the stress it may cause, cockroaches present in large numbers can trigger asthmatic and ...

Find out in this one-minute video, where Ask Smithsonian host Eric Schulze delves deep into the dark recesses of our minds to get at the facts behind our phobias. Ask Smithsonian: How Long Can a ...

In fact, if you travel to a country where malaria and other diseases are spread by mosquitoes, it is crucial that you take insect repellant. The CDC recommends that you use only insect repellents ...

Visualizing mechanical stress distribution in soft and live biomaterials is key to understand biological processes and improve material design. Here, the authors design a biosensor to visualize ...

When he's not busy writing it, Stephen King enjoys watching horror, with one movie turning his stomach and impressing him in equal measure.