PMID: 16639172Apr 28, 2006Paper

Classical conditioning of endocrine effects

Current Opinion in Psychiatry
Ursula Stockhorst

Abstract

Classical conditioning is a form of associative learning, based on the pioneering work of I. P. Pavlov: due to its association with an unconditioned stimulus that induces an unconditioned response, an initially neutral stimulus will become a conditioned stimulus evoking a conditioned response in the absence of the unconditioned stimulus. One important area for the application of conditioning principles is the regulation of physiological systems in general, and endocrine responses and its concomitant changes specifically. Conditioned endocrine responses were predominantly addressed in animal studies so far, mainly examining conditioned insulin production (and blood-glucose change) and corticosterone release. There are very few studies on classical conditioning of endocrine responses in the annual period of this review. The advancement, however, is that some are conducted with humans. Recently, as a new avenue, hormones and neurotransmitters have been examined as mediators of basic conditioning processes. Moreover, there is an increasing interest in gender-specific conditioning responses which are influenced by gonadal hormones. Research on classical conditioning demonstrates that endocrine systems are adaptable to environmental ...Continue Reading

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