1. Teens With ADHD, Depression Risk Internet Addiction - US News and World Report
In a wired world, obsessive use is likely to increase, experts say

2. People With Social Phobia Have Different Self-Image - US News and World Report
THURSDAY, Oct. 9 (HealthDay News) -- The brains of people with generalized social phobia actually respond differently than those of other people when reading criticism about themselves, a new report says.

3. Forget the scale, the calorie counting, and the food phobias. They may be doing more harm than go...
It's diet season, that time of year when more than 76 million Americans resolve to never eat another french fry, swear off sweets, stop swilling beer, and pray for a magic pill to shorten the days of diet deprivation that so often mark the new year....

4. The biological underpinnings of paralyzing fears and sources for help - US News and World Report
High places should be easy to avoid. There is no compelling reason to climb a tree, for example, or to ride a roller coaster. But somehow, when Beth Cox was driving her daughter from their Atlanta home to Oklahoma two years ago, she found herself cr...

5. Phobia - simple/specific  (Trust Mark: Doctor-Reviewed)
A phobia is a persistent and irrational fear of a particular type of object, animal, activity, or situation. • Reviewer: Linda Vorvick, MD, Family Physician, Seattle Site Coordinator, Lecturer, Pathophysiology, MEDEX Northwest Division of Physician Assistant Studies, University of Washington School of Medicine; and Timothy A. Rogge, MD, private practice in Psychiatry, Kirkland, Washington. Also reviewed by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Medical Director, A.D.A.M., Inc.

6. Phobias  (Trust Mark: Doctor-Reviewed)
A phobia is an intense but unrealistic fear that can interfere with the ability to socialize, work, or go about everyday life, brought on by an object, event or situation.• Author: Paula Ford-Martin, Rebecca J. Frey PhD