How learning shapes immunity (A18)

• Subject Area: Personality Psychology, Clinical and Medical Psychology, Methodology
• Term: since 2017
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 316803389

Experimental studies in rodents and humans have convincingly demonstrated that immune functions can be modulated by associative learning processes. To provide a basis for employing learning paradigms in clinical setting as supportive therapy in immunopharmacological regimen, the present project investigates the neurobiological underpinnings of taste-immune associative learning in a set of closely interlinked experimental studies in rats. Moreover, we will analyze the clinical relevance and the generalizability of our findings to different drugs with distinct immunopharmacological mechanisms.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1280: Extinction Learning
• Applicant Institution: Ruhr-Universität Bochum
• Project Heads: Professor Dr. Martin Hadamitzky; Professor Dr. Manfred Schedlowski