title: Clinical implications of state-dependent learning.
abstract: Researchers have found that state-dependent learning is associated with the administration of a wide variety of drugs. Recent data suggest that similar phenomena may occur secondary to endogenous changes in neuroregulatory substances. The authors point out that awareness of such changes in cognitive processing strategies and abilities should help to further our understanding of the phenomenology of psychiatric states and should generate psychotherapeutic techniques designed to maximize the transfer of information across psychiatric states.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001143:Arousal / Q000187:drug effects; D001245:Association Learning / Q000187:drug effects; D001714:Bipolar Disorder / Q000523:psychology; D002940:Circadian Rhythm; D003345:Corticosterone / Q000502:physiology; D003463:Cues; D003863:Depression / Q000523:psychology; D004193:Discrimination Learning / Q000187:drug effects; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning / Q000187:drug effects; D011939:Mental Recall / Q000187:drug effects; D018377:Neurotransmitter Agents / Q000378:metabolism; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy / Q000379:methods; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000379:methods; D011619:Psychotropic Drugs / Q000494:pharmacology; D051381:Rats; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology; D014473:Unconscious, Psychology
chemical_list: D018377:Neurotransmitter Agents; D011619:Psychotropic Drugs; D003345:Corticosterone