Anticipatory sensitization to repeated stressors: The role of initial cortisol reactivity and meditation/emotion skills training

Highlights • Anticipatory cortisol levels can progressively increase before subsequent exposures. • This is called progressive anticipatory sensitization of the cortisol response. • Cortisol response to first stressor predicts progressive anticipatory sensitization. • This may be a mechanism for the...

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Published in:Psychoneuroendocrinology 2015-02, Vol.52, p.229-238
Main Authors: Turan, Bulent, Foltz, Carol, Cavanagh, James F, Alan Wallace, B, Cullen, Margaret, Rosenberg, Erika L, Jennings, Patricia A, Ekman, Paul, Kemeny, Margaret E
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Anticipation
Anticipation, Psychological - physiology
Central Nervous System Sensitization - physiology
Cognitive Therapy - methods
Cortisol
Emotional training
Endocrinology & Metabolism
Female
HPA axis
Humans
Hydrocortisone - metabolism
Meditation
Meditation - methods
Middle Aged
Psychiatry
Sensitization
Stress
Stress, Psychological - metabolism
Stress, Psychological - therapy
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Summary:Highlights • Anticipatory cortisol levels can progressively increase before subsequent exposures. • This is called progressive anticipatory sensitization of the cortisol response. • Cortisol response to first stressor predicts progressive anticipatory sensitization. • This may be a mechanism for the translation of short-to-long-term stress reactions. • Emotional/meditation training reduces this progressive anticipatory sensitization.
ISSN:0306-4530
1873-3360
DOI:10.1016/j.psyneuen.2014.11.014