Conditioning of the Cortisol Awakening Response in Healthy Men: Study Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial

Fabian Wolters   ^{1, 2} , MSc ;   Henriët van Middendorp   ^{1, 2} , PhD ;   Omer Van den Bergh   ³ , PhD ;   Nienke R Biermasz   ⁴ , MD, Prof Dr ;   Onno C Meijer   ⁴ , Prof Dr ;   Andrea WM Evers   ^{1, 5, 6} , Prof Dr

¹ Health, Medical and Neuropsychology Unit, Faculty of Social Sciences, Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands

² Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition, Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands

³ Health Psychology, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

⁴ Division of Endocrinology, Department of Medicine, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands

⁵ Medical Delta, Leiden University, Technical University Delft and Erasmus University Rotterdam, Leiden, Delft, Rotterdam, Netherlands

⁶ Department of Psychiatry, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands