ReviewJournal of personalized medicine2021
Is Low Heart Rate Variability Associated with Emotional Dysregulation, Psychopathological Dimensions, and Prefrontal Dysfunctions? An Integrative View.
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- Exploration of wearable sensor measures associated with panic attacks differs across mental health conditions.Frontiers in digital health · 2026Article
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- Age, Sex, and Central Adiposity as Determinants of Autonomic Nervous System Reactivity in Adults.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2025Article
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- The relationship between emotional disorders and heart rate variability: A Mendelian randomization study.PloS one · 2024Article
- Interoceptive Awareness Among the General Public in Saudi Arabia: A Cross-Sectional Study.Cureus · 2023Article
- Interoceptive awareness in a Norwegian population: psychometric properties of the Multidimensional Assessment of Interoceptive Awareness (MAIA) 2.BMC psychiatry · 2023Article
- Heart Rate Variability as a Translational Dynamic Biomarker of Altered Autonomic Function in Health and Psychiatric Disease.Biomedicines · 2023Review
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Abstract
Several studies have suggested a correlation between heart rate variability (HRV), emotion regulation (ER), psychopathological conditions, and cognitive functions in the past two decades. Specifically, recent data seem to support the hypothesis that low-frequency heart rate variability (LF-HRV), an index of sympathetic cardiac control, correlates with worse executive performances, worse ER, and specific psychopathological dimensions. The present work aims to review the previous findings on these topics and integrate them from two main cornerstones of this perspective: Porges' Polyvagal Theory and Thayer and Lane's Neurovisceral Integration Model, which are necessary to understand these associations better. For this reason, based on these two approaches, we point out that low HRV is associated with emotional dysregulation, worse cognitive performance, and transversal psychopathological conditions. We report studies that underline the importance of considering the heart-brain relation in order to shed light on the necessity to implement psychophysiology into a broader perspective on emotions, mental health, and good cognitive functioning. This integration is beneficial not only as a theoretical ground from which to start for further research studies but as a starting point for new theoretical perspectives useful in clinical practice.
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