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| | The Fear Factor - baltimoresun.com |
 | | For Garcia and others who profess a mortal fear of insects - entomophobia - the emergence of billions of periodical cicadas across Maryland this month has turned life into one uncomfortably long episode of Fear Factor. |
 | | In a study published this month in the journal Biological Psychiatry, Martis and a team at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston found that compared with healthy volunteers, animal phobics displayed slight differences in some areas of the brain, such as the paralimbic cortex, that are linked to anxiety. |
 | | Someone with a fear of spiders, for example, might be asked to look at a picture of a spider, then hold a plastic one, and then sit in a room with a caged spider, until the arachnophobe is finally comfortable holding the object of his angst. |
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