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ArticlePsychological science2024

Oscillatory Coupling Between Neural and Cardiac Rhythms.

Kaia S Sargent, Emily L Martinez, Alexandra C Reed, Anika Guha, Morgan E Bartholomew, Caroline K Diehl, Christine S Chang, Sarah Salama, Tzvetan Popov, Julian F Thayer and 2 more

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Article in Psychological science, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.

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18citing papers in PubMed
9.6field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

18 citing papers in PubMed, 25 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Kaia S SargentDepartment of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles.ORCID 0000-0003-4731-2776
Emily L MartinezDepartment of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles.
Alexandra C ReedDepartment of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles.
Anika GuhaDepartment of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles.ORCID 0000-0002-4576-5037
Morgan E BartholomewDepartment of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles.
Caroline K DiehlDepartment of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles.
Christine S ChangDepartment of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles.
Sarah SalamaDepartment of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles.
Tzvetan PopovDepartment of Psychology, University of Konstanz.
Julian F ThayerDepartment of Psychological Science, University of California, Irvine.
Gregory A MillerDepartment of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles.
Cindy M YeeDepartment of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles.ORCID 0000-0003-1341-1661
University of California, Los Angeles · USUniversity of California, Irvine · USUniversity of Konstanz · DE

Funding

Enhancing Cognitive Training Through Exercise Following a First Schizophrenia EpisodeR01MH110544 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI NUECHTERLEIN, KEITH H · 2016 to 2022
$7.3M
NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH110544NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH110544-S1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Oscillations serve a critical role in organizing biological systems. In the brain, oscillatory coupling is a fundamental mechanism of communication. The possibility that neural oscillations interact directly with slower physiological rhythms (e.g., heart rate, respiration) is largely unexplored and may have important implications for psychological functioning. Oscillations in heart rate, an aspect of heart rate variability (HRV), show remarkably robust associations with psychological health. Mather and Thayer proposed coupling between high-frequency HRV (HF-HRV) and neural oscillations as a mechanism that partially accounts for such relationships. We tested this hypothesis by measuring phase-amplitude coupling between HF-HRV and neural oscillations in 37 healthy adults at rest. Robust coupling was detected in all frequency bands. Granger causality analyses indicated stronger heart-to-brain than brain-to-heart effects in all frequency bands except gamma. These findings suggest that cardiac rhythms play a causal role in modulating neural oscillations, which may have important implications for mental health.

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BrainHeart RateAdultElectroencephalographyFemaleHumansMaleYoung Adultcognitive neuroscienceelectrophysiologyhuman body

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PMID38568870
PMCPMC13608004
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