As we work on overcoming what scares us, a new plasticity becomes available in our brain, and fear strikes out.

When you were little, you probably figured adulthood meant finally outgrowing all your fears, right? But spoiler alert, being an adult just introduces a whole new set of things to stress about, like ...

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We all know about acrophobia (fear of heights) and arachnophobia (fear of spiders). These are the common anxieties that often come to mind when we think of phobias. But what if we told you there’s a ...

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I always thought phobias were dramatic inhibitions that stopped your life dead, like the germaphobe who practically lives in Saran Wrap to avoid contamination or the guy who can’t fly to his sister’s ...

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