«It shows that it is not only important to break the links
between environmental cues and fear, but also to substitute new learning about safety that prevents fears from encroaching on hard - won therapeutic gains.»
In similar experiments, animals with less NPAS4 in the nucleus accumbens took more time to form those early connections
between environmental cues and cocaine, but they still sought the drug just as often during later simulated relapse.
Not exact matches
The remarkable difference
between mindful versus mindless eating is that mindful eaters place themselves in control of their eating behaviors versus allowing
environmental cues and triggers to determine them.
Most interventions have included parent education about normal sleep and sleep cycles, advice to maximise
environmental differences
between day and night, and strategies to encourage infant self - settling.7 - 10 Strategies included range from the graduated extinction method described above to encouraging parents to stretch night time feed intervals (in the hope that the infant will self - settle) and encouraging the use of parent - independent sleep
cues.
This dual - process conceptual framework proposes that direct pathways
between the family environment and behaviours may be the result of a spontaneous, automatic response to an
environmental cue within the family (automaticity), while indirect pathways may be mediated by individual «cognitive» determinants or thought processes.