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Direct handling of "Relaxing" for experiments.

Research Project

Project/Area Number 24653213
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Research Field Experimental psychology
Research InstitutionNara Institute of Science and Technology

Principal Investigator

KOMAI Shoji  奈良先端科学技術大学院大学, バイオサイエンス研究科, 准教授 (50420469)

Project Period (FY) 2012-04-01 – 2014-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2013)
Budget Amount *help
¥3,120,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥720,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,560,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥360,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥1,560,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥360,000)
Keywordsリラックス / 条件づけ / 漸進的筋弛緩法 / 動物モデル / セーフティーシグナル / 生理指標 / リラクゼーション
Research Abstract

We modern human beings have been suffered from severe mental stress these days. Then people have tried to take care of it by using of various methods called "relaxation". The relaxation itself, however, seems to be mysterious to handle in experimental conditions. This is simply because we have no subjective marker of relaxation rather than stress condition. Animal clearly raises the concentration of glucocorticoids and drops the body temperature accompanied with stress stimulus. We here tried to arrange the schedule to mobile the relaxation condition in a particular stressful situation according to classical conditioning paradigm. We found that the physical stimuli could work as unconditioned stimuli to bring out the relaxation condition rather than chemical stimuli, because of precise reaching time to their sensors, which helps the stimuli to be strongly conditioned.

Report

(3 results)
  • 2013 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2012 Research-status Report

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Published: 2013-05-31   Modified: 2019-07-29  

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