Physiological Regulation: How It Really Works.
Contrary to dogma, much physiological regulation utilizes learning from past experience to make responses that preemptively and effectively neutralize anticipated regulatory challenges. Understanding physiological regulation therefore requires expanding explanatory models beyond homeostasis and allostasis to emphasize the prominence of conditioning.
Department of Oral Health Sciences, School of Dentistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.
Douglas S
DS
Ramsay
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, School of Medicine, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45267, USA. Electronic address: steve.woods@uc.edu.
Stephen C
SC
Woods
D052636:Allostasis; D000818:Animals; D003213:Conditioning, Psychological; D025461:Feedback, Physiological; D006706:Homeostasis; D006801:Humans; D010827:Physiology
addiction; allostasis; homeostasis; learning; obesity