Mental stress is an important factor contributing to recognized mechanisms underlying
cardiovascular events. Among these, stress-related endothelial dysfunction is an early risk …

Cardiovascular disease is a principle cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide, and it has
a complex etiology that involves lifestyle factors such as psychosocial stress. Recent …

Background Although hypnosis and hypnotherapy have become more popular in recent
years, the evidence for hypnosis to influence perceived stress is unclear. In this systematic …

Hypnotherapy is claimed to be effective in treatment of psychosomatic disorders. A meta-
analysis was conducted with 21 randomized, controlled clinical studies to evaluate efficacy …

Mental stress has been shown to induce cardiovascular events, likely due to its negative
impact on vascular function. Flavanols, plant-derived polyphenolic compounds, improve …

Susceptibility to hypnosis is a very pervasive psychophysiological trait characterized by
different attentional abilities, information processing, and cardiovascular control. Since near …

The studies I review in this chapter have all involved one or other of two recently developed
brain scanning techniques for detecting and displaying images of changes in regional …

Introduction Mental stress has been identified as a trigger of cardiovascular events. A single
episode of stress can induce acute impairments in endothelial function in healthy adults …

Mental stress induces endothelial dysfunction, that is a reduction of the post-occlusion
brachial artery flow-mediated vasodilation (FMD). This does not occur in subjects highly …

Recent evidence suggests a coordinated regulation by the local renin-angiotensin system
(RAS) and tissue kallikrein-kinin system (TKKS) of blood flow and substrate supply in …