Airways and asthma in blood phobia

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Put Fifteen asthma patients, 12 blood injury phobia patients, and 14 healthy controls in a room and show them a mix of images and you get some interesting results. It turns out that the all three groups responded to the blood injury images. Images that involved blood injury caused restriction of the airways and the experimenters expressed concern for the subjects in the blood injury and asthmatic group.

Reference:

Ritz, T., Wilhelm, F. H., Meuret, A. E., Gerlach, A. L., & Roth, W. t. (2011). Airway response to emotion- and disease-specific films in asthma, blood phobia, and health: Airways and emotion in asthma and blood phobia.Psychophysiology, 48(1), 121-135. doi:10.1111/j.1469-8986.2010.01044.x

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