Trial reportBrain and behavior2014
Biofeedback-based training for stress management in daily hassles: an intervention study.
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- Interventions Based on Biofeedback Systems to Improve Workers' Psychological Well-Being, Mental Health, and Safety: Systematic Literature Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Pooled it
- Effects of stress management and relaxation training on the relationship between diabetes symptoms and affect among Latinos.Psychology & health · 2018Trial
- Teachers' acute cardiovascular response to observed classroom disruptions and resulting chronic endocrine stress. Analysis of dynamic effects with global assessments for state space grids.Frontiers in physiology · 2026Article
- Physiological and Personality Measures as Potential Factors Associated with Cardiac Coherence Training Effects on Symptoms Reduction: A Pilot Study on Healthcare Workers.Clinical neuropsychiatry · 2025Article
- The Utility of Heartrate and Heartrate Variability Biofeedback for the Improvement of Interoception across Behavioural, Physiological and Neural Outcome Measures: A Systematic Review.Brain sciences · 2024Review
- The mutually reinforcing dynamics between pain and stress: mechanisms, impacts and management strategies.Frontiers in pain research (Lausanne, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- A Pilot Study of the Biofeedback Training to Reduce Salivary Cortisol Level and Improve Mental Health in Highly-Trained Female Athletes.Applied psychophysiology and biofeedback · 2023Article
- Review
- Correction of Stress-Induced States Using Sensory Stimulation Automatically Modulated by Endogenous Human Rhythms.Neuroscience and behavioral physiology · 2022Article
- The Effects of a 3-Week Heartbeat Perception Training on Interoceptive Abilities.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2022Article
- Effects of Virtual Reality-Based Relaxation Techniques on Psychological, Physiological, and Biochemical Stress Indicators.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Optical brain imaging and its application to neurofeedback.NeuroImage. Clinical · 2021Review
- Mitigation of stress: new treatment alternatives.Cognitive neurodynamics · 2018Review
- Translational bioinformatics in the era of real-time biomedical, health care and wellness data streams.Briefings in bioinformatics · 2017Article
- Feasibility and acceptance of biofeedback-assisted mental training in an Austrian elementary school: a pilot study.Wiener medizinische Wochenschrift (1946) · 2016Article
- Mobile Phone Ecological Momentary Assessment of Daily Stressors Among People Living With HIV: Elucidating Factors Underlying Health-Related Challenges in Daily Routines.The Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care : JANACArticle
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11 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
backgroundThe day-to-day causes of stress are called daily hassles. Daily hassles are correlated with ill health. Biofeedback (BF) is one of the tools used for acquiring stress-coping skills. However, the anatomical correlates of the effects of BF with long training periods remain unclear. In this study, we aimed to investigate this.
methodsPARTICIPANTS WERE ASSIGNED RANDOMLY TO TWO GROUPS: the intervention group and the control group. Participants in the intervention group performed a biofeedback training (BFT) task (a combination task for heart rate and cerebral blood flow control) every day, for about 5 min once a day. The study outcomes included MRI, psychological tests (e.g., Positive and Negative Affect Schedule, Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale, and Brief Job Stress Questionnaire), and a stress marker (salivary cortisol levels) before (day 0) and after (day 28) the intervention.
resultsWe observed significant improvements in the psychological test scores and salivary cortisol levels in the intervention group compared to the control group. Furthermore, voxel-based morphometric analysis revealed that compared to the control group, the intervention group had significantly increased regional gray matter (GM) volume in the right lateral orbitofrontal cortex, which is an anatomical cluster that includes mainly the left hippocampus, and the left subgenual anterior cingulate cortex. The GM regions are associated with the stress response, and, in general, these regions seem to be the most sensitive to the detrimental effects of stress.
conclusionsOur findings suggest that our BFT is effective against the GM structures vulnerable to stress.
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