The thought of finding a spider crawling around the house might send shivers down your spine. But help is at hand, as an expert has revealed a surprisingly simple way to cure your spider phobia.

Who's afraid of spiders? Well, quite a lot of people it seems. Spider phobia is one of the most prolific of the specific phobias and it afflicts people across a range of geographical and cultural ...

Arachnophobes, rejoice! A new study suggests a cure to your fear of spiders is just two minutes away. The only problem is that it involves being near a tarantula. Reporting in Biological Psychiatry, ...

LINCOLN, Neb. (Nebraska Today) - Whether it’s a sudden dash across the garage or silhouette in a backyard web, spiders evoke fear in many people. But researchers don’t have a clear picture of why, ...

Fear of spiders, open spaces, fear of heights? Virtual reality comes to the rescue as a tool to treat phobias, prove researchers from SWPS University, Gdańsk University of Technology and Jagiellonian ...

Back in my footloose twenties, I lived for a year in Costa Rica, where I worked at a school in the central highlands and worked even harder, by reluctant necessity, at overcoming my lifelong horror of ...