The aim of this study was to investigate changes in the Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) and moods before and after participation in a Mindfulness Art Therapy Short version (MATS). The study design was non-randomized controlled trial in intervention study. Participants were 10 Japanese patients with advanced cancer. They received the MATS in one session, which consisted of mindfulness practices a...

Central regulation of cardiac output via the sympathetic and parasympathetic branches of the autonomic nervous system allows the organism to respond to environmental changes. Sudden onset stimuli, startle stimuli, are useful probes to study central regulatory responses to the environment. In mammals, startle stimuli induce a transient bradycardia that habituates with repeated stimulation. Repea...

The relationship between mind and body, in particular the autonomic nervous system (ANS), has been explored for many years. Cannon’s paper (1914) “The interrelations of emotions as suggested by recent physiological researches”, reviewed the literature on the physiology of emotions from 1892-1914. In the 1920’s, Cannon further elucidated the relative contribution of the sympathetic nervous syste...

The relative contribution of the efferent components of the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems to the heart rate (HR) response to dynamic physical exercise was evaluated in 23 normal males. The dynamic exercise was performed on a bicycle ergometer at work loads of 25, 50 and 100 W, before and after pharmacological blockade with atropine (13 individuals) or propranolol (10 individua...

Visual awareness, using a number of perceptual paradigms such as binocular rivalry and visual detection, has been studied for decades. Most researches focused on how activation of brain components, in particular, the cortex changes in line with the organism’s level of awareness. However, little emphasis is put on the autonomic nervous system (ANS) in response to transitions to and from awarenes...

OBJECTIVE Donepezil, a cholinesterase inhibitor (ChEI) that is widely used to treat Alzheimer's disease, is thought to act by increasing extracellular acethylcholine (ACh) in the central nervous system. The effects of the administration of ChEIs on the autonomic nervous system, however, are complex and controversial. METHODS In this study we observed the effects of donepezil at a dose of 3 mg...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the effects of moderate-intensity exercise on the sympathetic nervous system in male smokers. METHODS Twenty-eight men (14 smokers and 14 non-smokers, ages 21-46 y) were recruited. The activity of the autonomic nervous system was measured by power spectral analysis of heart rate variability. Spectral power in the frequency domain was quantified by integrating the area...

Autonomic nervous system integrity has been assessed in 30 alcoholic subjects and 30 age-sex matched controls using five simple tests of cardiovascular responses. There was evidence of parasympathetic neuropathy alone in five of the alcoholic subjects (16%) and of combined parasympathetic and sympathetic neuropathy in an additional six (20%). None of the controls showed any abnormality. Within ...

The human cardiovascular system is characterized by multi-level complex of regulatory structures with a large number internal and external connections. In the functional aspect, closest interaction carried out between respiratory systems, where neurogenic mechanisms play an important role due to activity sympathetic parasympathetic parts autonomic nervous system. aim this work study characteris...