AUTONOMIC NERVOUS REGULATION OF HEART RATE AND BIOELECTRIC BRAIN ACTIVITY AT THE HEART RATE VARIABILITY BIOFEEDBACK IN HUMANS DEPENDING FROM THE INITIAL SERUM TNF-α LEVEL

Heart Rate Variability Biofeedback, Self-Regulation, and Severe Brain Injury

SPECIAL ISSUE Heart Rate Variability Biofeedback, Self-Regulation, and Severe Brain Injury Sonya Kim, PhD, CRC, Joseph F. Rath, PhD, Rollin McCraty, PhD, Vance Zemon, PhD, Marie M. Cavallo, PhD, and Frederick W. Foley, PhD Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY; Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine, New York University School of Medicine...

Heart rate variability and heart rate in healthy volunteers. Is the female autonomic nervous system cardioprotective?

AIMS Heart rate variability has been proposed as an indicator of cardiovascular health. Since women have a lower cardiovascular risk, we hypothesized that there are gender differences in autonomic modulation. METHODS AND RESULTS In 276 healthy subjects (135 women, 141 men) between 18 and 71 years of age, 24 h heart rate and heart rate variability were determined. All heart rate variability pa...

Heart Rate Variability, Heart Rate Recovery, and Heart Rate Turbulence Represent Different Components of the Cardiac Autonomic Nervous System

Heart rate variability biofeedback, executive functioning and chronic brain injury.

PRIMARY OBJECTIVE To determine if individuals with brain injury can modify heart rate variability (HRV) through biofeedback and, if so, enhance its pattern to improve emotional regulation and problem-solving ability. DESIGN A quasi-experimental design with repeated measures was employed. Thirteen individuals aged 23-63 years with severe brain injury (13-40 years post-onset) participating in a...

Heart rate variability biofeedback: effects of age on heart rate variability, baroreflex gain, and asthma.

OBJECTIVES To present additional analysis of data from a previously published study showing that biofeedback training to increase heart rate variability (HRV) can be an effective component in asthma treatment. HRV and intervention-related changes in HRV are negatively correlated with age. Here we assess the effects of age on biofeedback effects for asthma. DESIGN Ten sessions of HRV biofeedba...