States of peripheral autonomic arousal accompany emotional behaviour, physical exercise
and cognitive effort, and their central representation may influence decision making and the …

Physiological homeostasis depends upon adequate integration and responsiveness of
sensory information with the autonomic nervous system to affect rapid and effective …

Electrophysiology, behavioral, and neuroimaging studies have revealed sex-related
differences in autonomic cardiac control, as reflected in measurements of heart rate …

Psychologically stressful experiences evoke changes in cardiovascular physiology that may
influence risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD). But what are the neural circuits and …

The purpose of the present study was to determine the cortical structures involved with
integrated baroreceptor‐mediated modulation of autonomic cardiovascular function in …

The vagal (high frequency [HF]) component of heart rate variability (HRV) predicts survival in
post-myocardial infarction patients and is considered to reflect vagal antagonism of …

Different emotions are accompanied by different bodily states and it is unclear which brain
structures are involved in both, the cerebral representation of the bodily change and the …

The aim of the present study was to characterize the functional relationships between
behaviorally evoked regional brain activation and cardiac autonomic activity in humans …

New Findings What is the topic of this review? The pathways in the brain by which visceral
information, in particular cardiopulmonary afferents, ascend to the cerebral cortex have been …

The autonomic nervous system plays a critical role in regulating the cardiovascular
responses to mental and physical stress. Recent neuroimaging studies have demonstrated …