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Classical Conditioning of Digital Pulse Volume in Migraineurs and Normal Controls
Author(s) -
Price Kenneth P.,
Clarke Lewis K.
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
headache: the journal of head and face pain
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.14
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1526-4610
pISSN - 0017-8748
DOI - 10.1111/j.1526-4610.1979.hed1906328.x
Subject(s) - migraine , conditioning , classical conditioning , pulse (music) , medicine , psychology , vasoconstriction , anesthesia , neuroscience , audiology , computer science , mathematics , telecommunications , statistics , detector
SYNOPSIS Twenty–two pairs of migraine headache sufferers and normal controls were exposed to a differential classical conditioning paradigm. The migraineurs did not show differential conditioning of digital pulse volume. The normal controls, on the other hand, showed conditioned vasoconstriction to the CS+ (and vasodilation to the CS‐ ) during the second block of conditioning trials. These data support reports of response stereotypy in migraineurs and extend our earlier findings that migraineurs have a deficit in learning in the autonomic nervous system. The use of unmedicated subjects in studies of this type is suggested.