Acupuncture for preconditioning of expectancy and/or Pavlovian extinction

Acupuncture in Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 234-238

  Lundeberg, Thomas ^a   Lund, Iréne ^b  

^a Sabbatsberg Hospital   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Acupuncture; Conditional reflexes; Expectancy; Extinction; Pavlov; Preconditioning

Indexed keywords

ACUPUNCTURE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CONDITIONING; EXPECTATION; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; LEARNING; PAIN; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REWARD; SELF CONCEPT; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACUPUNCTURE POINTS; ACUPUNCTURE THERAPY; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; HUMANS; SENSATION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 58549111444     PISSN: 09645284     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/aim.26.4.234     Document Type: Article

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