Fear of trains the social norms of a realistic fear, this anxiety may be classified as a specific phobia about trains. "Campbell's Psychiatric Dictionary" puts fear of trains under the "vehicle phobia", together with fears of boats, airplanes, automobiles, and other forms of transportation. A 1913 short story "Terror" by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki is a first-person narrative of a young man suffering of the morbid fear of travel in trains and streetcars. Tanizaki uses the German word , "railroad sickness". Other travel-related anxieties include: Other transport-related disorders include: Fear of trains The fear of trains is anxiety and fear associated with trains, railways, and
Fear but allowed in a parent's presence if required. Developing a sense of equanimity to handle various situations is often advocated as an antidote to irrational fear and as an essential skill by a number of ancient philosophies. Often laboratory studies with rats are conducted to examine the acquisition and extinction of conditioned fear responses. In 2004, researchers conditioned rats ("Rattus norvegicus") to fear a certain stimulus, through electric shock. The researchers were able to then cause an extinction of this conditioned fear, to a point that no medications or drugs were able to further aid in the extinction process. However