In Arachnoidphobia, early intervention and brief treatment is most beneficial when combining the strategy of confrontation in vivo with coaching to accept fear with the primary goal of preventing avoidant behavior.

For management of anxious dental patients an assesment of the level of anxiety before treatment is crucial.  This is done using the Modified Dental Anxiety Scale (MDAS) with which treatment indication may be assessed.  The use in clinical practice, especially in short term therapy will be expanded on.

Nocturnal panic attacks are heterogeneous clinical entities. Similar signs may occur in epileptic events, specifically with motor phenomena. Video-EEG Monitoring with expert reporting is required when making diagnoses of exclusion.  Case studies will show video illustration.

A range of potentially anxiety inducing experiences in sleep or at the wake-sleep transition, are grouped as parasomnias. Should conditioning take place, psychophysiologic insomnia may result, CBT-on the background of a sound somnological workup.

We suggest these topics concerning anxiety and panic phenomena be drawn together in a platform that will form a symposium as a whole.