Topic: continuous drug intake

Continuous treatment with drugs is an inevitable prerequisite for many disease conditions. However, the amount of adverse side effects induced by the respective drugs during therapy urges the need for developing alternative or supportive treatment strategies. Even though rarely analyzed under the perspective of associative learning, reframing continuous drug intake as a learning process may open a new path for treatment optimization. In this context, behaviorally conditioned pharmacological effects, obtained by means of associative learning, have been successfully implemented as strategies to