Interoceptive fear conditioning as a learning model of panic disorder: An experimental evaluation using 20%CO₂-enriched air in a non-clinical sample

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• 作者：Dean T. Acheson ; John P. Forsyth ; Jason M. Prenoveau ; Mark E. Bouton
• 关键词：Interoceptive conditioning ; Panic ; Fear ; Fear learning ; Learning theory
• 刊名：Behaviour Research and Therapy
• 出版年：2007
• 期刊代码：32_00057967
• 类别：med
• 出版时间：October 2007
• 卷：45
• 期：10
• 页码：2280-2294
• 文件大小：237 K

摘要

Despite the role afforded interoceptive fear conditioning in etiologic accounts of panic disorder, there are no good experimental demonstrations of such learning in humans. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the interoceptive conditioning account using 20%carbon dioxide (CO₂)-enriched air as an interoceptive conditioned stimulus (CS) (i.e., physiologically inert 5-s exposures) and unconditioned stimulus (US) (i.e., physiologically prepotent 15-s exposures). Healthy participants (N=42) were randomly assigned to one of three conditions: a CS-only, contingent CS–US pairings, or unpaired/non-contingent CS and US presentations. Electrodermal and self-report (e.g., distress, fear) served as indices of conditioned emotional responding. Results showed greater magnitude electrodermal and evaluative fear conditioning in the paired relative to the CS-only condition. The explicitly unpaired condition showed even greater electrodermal and evaluative responding during acquisition, and marked resistance to extinction. The latter results are consistent with the possibility that the unpaired procedure constituted a partial reinforcement procedure in which CO₂ onset was paired with more extended CO₂ exposure on 50%of the trials. Overall, the findings are consistent with contemporary learning theory accounts of panic.