Trial reportCognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience2022
Effects of a randomised trial of 5-week heart rate variability biofeedback intervention on mind wandering and associated brain function.
Trial report in Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.
- Heart rate dynamics and antioxidant capacity under cognitive-emotional load in obsessive-compulsive disorder.BMC psychiatry · 2026Article
- When attention falters: brain, breathing, and behavioral signals of lapses in interoceptive attention.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Cognitive state monitoring for neuroadaptive information visualization.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2026Review
- Physiological correlates of interoception and the effect of heart rate variability biofeedback.Frontiers in network physiology · 2026Article
- The mind wanders to dark places: Mind-wandering catalyzes rumination in the context of negative affect and impulsivity.Emotion (Washington, D.C.) · 2024Article
- Alleviating premenstrual symptoms with smartphone-based heart rate variability biofeedback training: a pilot study.Frontiers in digital health · 2024Article
- Autonomic complexity dynamically indexes affect regulation in everyday life.Journal of psychopathology and clinical science · 2023Article
- Multimodal neuroimaging data from a 5-week heart rate variability biofeedback randomized clinical trial.Scientific data · 2023Article
- Short-term blood pressure variability is inversely related to regional amplitude of low frequency fluctuations in older and younger adults.Aging brain · 2023Article
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Abstract
Previous research suggests that excessive negative self-related thought during mind wandering involves the default mode network (DMN) core subsystem and the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC). Heart rate variability (HRV) biofeedback, which involves slow paced breathing to increase HRV, is known to promote emotional well-being. However, it remains unclear whether it has positive effects on mind wandering and associated brain function. We conducted a study where young adults were randomly assigned to one of two 5-week interventions involving daily biofeedback that either increased heart rate oscillations via slow paced breathing (Osc+ condition) or had little effect on heart rate oscillations (active control or Osc- condition). The two intervention conditions did not differentially affect mind wandering and DMN core-OFC functional connectivity. However, the magnitude of participants' heart rate oscillations during daily biofeedback practice was associated with pre-to-post decreases in mind wandering and in DMN core-OFC functional connectivity. Furthermore, the reduction in the DMN core-OFC connectivity was associated with a decrease in mind wandering. Our results suggested that daily sessions involving high amplitude heart rate oscillations may help reduce negative mind wandering and associated brain function.
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