Am J Psychiatry 1979; 136:927-931
Copyright © 1979 by American Psychiatric Association
Clinical implications of state-dependent learning
VI Reus, H Weingartner and RM Post
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.
