{"id":138,"date":"2003-11-11T23:16:15","date_gmt":"2003-11-12T07:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2003\/11\/11\/a-pill-for-phobias\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:16:33","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:16:33","slug":"a-pill-for-phobias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2003\/11\/11\/a-pill-for-phobias\/","title":{"rendered":"A Pill for Phobias?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nsu\/031110\/031110-6.html\">Antibacterial eases phobia: TB drug plus virtual reality relieves fear of heights.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nA common antibacterial drug has helped phobics to overcome their fear of heights. Combined with standard behavioural therapy, D-cycloserine (DCS) speeded recovery fourfold compared with therapy alone.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Apparently it works by aiding in the transmission of a protein to a brain receptor.  Studies in rats show that this helps them to unlearn fear more quickly.  Seems, according to this preliminary study, that it might work the same way in humans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Antibacterial eases phobia: TB drug plus virtual reality relieves fear of heights. A common antibacterial drug has helped phobics to overcome their fear of heights. Combined with standard behavioural therapy, D-cycloserine (DCS) speeded recovery fourfold compared with therapy alone. Apparently it works by aiding in the transmission of a protein to a brain receptor. Studies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13182,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions\/13182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}