Pavlovian conditioning and multiple chemical sensitivity

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 105, Issue SUPPL. 2, 1997, Pages 521-526

  Siegel, Shepard ^a   Kreutzer, Richard ^b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Aversion learning; Classical conditioning; Conditioning; Counterconditioning; Learning; MCS; Multiple chemical sensitivity; Pavlovian conditioning; Systematic desensitization

Indexed keywords

AVERSION; CONDITIONING; CONFERENCE PAPER; DESENSITIZATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOMODULATION; LEARNING; MULTIPLE CHEMICAL SENSITIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMELLING; SYMPTOM;

EID: 0030969217     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.97105s2521     Document Type: Conference Paper

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