[Conditioning of stress induced blood glucose and blood lipid changes]

The evidence for acute metabolic changes following intensive stress arises from a number of experimental studies. In our investigations we could differentiate these results, as we demonstrated that there exist pronounced differences in the metabolic changes after single, multiple and repeated stress and that furthermore neutral signal stimuli--after a series of simultaneous presentations with the stressor stimul (= conditioning phase) may induce conditioned changes in blood glucose and some blood lipid fractions. According to our hypothesis these learned ("conditioned") stress reactions may play an important role in the development and maintainance of various psychosomatic disturbancies.