Components of heart rate variability have attracted considerable attention in psychology and
medicine and have become important dependent measures in psychophysiology and …

The brain controls the heart directly through the sympathetic and parasympathetic branches
of the autonomic nervous system, which consists of multi-synaptic pathways from myocardial …

A growing body of research has revealed that social evaluative stressors trigger biological
and psychological responses that in chronic forms have been linked to aging and disease …

This research volume serves as a comprehensive resource for psychophysiological
research on media responses. It addresses the theoretical underpinnings, methodological …

The cardiovascular system is essential for life and has been a central focus of
psychophysiological investigation for several reasons. First, at least some its parameters …

Despite the increasing use of psychophysiological measures in various research areas,
there is a relative paucity of studies on communication, media, and media interfaces that …

This paper introduces the bodymind model of Art Therapy and delineates the processes
through which it has salutary effects on individuals coping with a variety of health related …

Sleep is characterized by coordinated cortical and cardiac oscillations reflecting
communication between the central (CNS) and autonomic (ANS) nervous systems. Here, we …

Heart period, systolic time intervals, low and high frequency heart period variability, blood
pressure, and respiration were measured in female subjects under three drug conditions …

Objective The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships between depressed
mood and parasympathetic control of the heart in healthy men and women at rest and during …