Heart rate variability as a biomarker in health and affective disorders: A perspective on neuroimaging studies

JS Mulcahy, DEO Larsson, SN Garfinkel, HD Critchley - Neuroimage, 2019 - Elsevier
The dynamic embodiment of psychological processes is evident in the association of health
outcomes, behavioural traits and psychological functioning with Heart Rate Variability …

Heart rate variability (HRV): From brain death to resonance breathing at 6 breaths per minute

AR Schwerdtfeger, G Schwarz, K Pfurtscheller… - Clinical …, 2020 - Elsevier
Heart rate variability (HRV) has been associated with various diseases and reflects
autonomic cardiac control sensitive to central nervous system function. Examples of the …

[HTML][HTML] Brain-heart interactions in the neurobiology of consciousness

D Candia-Rivera - Current Research in Neurobiology, 2022 - Elsevier
Recent experimental evidence on patients with disorders of consciousness revealed that
observing brain-heart interactions helps to detect residual consciousness, even in patients …

[HTML][HTML] Functional assessment of bidirectional cortical and peripheral neural control on heartbeat dynamics: A brain-heart study on thermal stress

D Candia-Rivera, V Catrambone, R Barbieri… - NeuroImage, 2022 - Elsevier
The study of functional Brain-Heart Interplay (BHI) from non-invasive recordings has gained
much interest in recent years. Previous endeavors aimed at understanding how the two …

Out-of-step: brain-heart desynchronization in anxiety disorders

S Tumati, MP Paulus, G Northoff - Molecular psychiatry, 2021 - nature.com
Imaging studies in anxiety disorders (AD) show abnormal functional connectivity primarily in
the salience network (SN), somatomotor network (SMN), and default mode network (DMN) …

From lung to brain: respiration modulates neural and mental activity

J Goheen, JAE Anderson, J Zhang, G Northoff - Neuroscience Bulletin, 2023 - Springer
Respiration protocols have been developed to manipulate mental states, including their use
for therapeutic purposes. In this systematic review, we discuss evidence that respiration may …

Processing of fMRI-related anxiety and information flow between brain and body revealed a preponderance of oscillations at 0.15/0.16 Hz

G Pfurtscheller, KJ Blinowska, M Kaminski… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Slow oscillations of different center frequencies and their coupling play an important role in
brain-body interactions. The crucial question analyzed by us is, whether the low frequency …

Verification of a central pacemaker in brain stem by phase-coupling analysis between HR interval-and BOLD-oscillations in the 0.10–0.15 Hz frequency band

G Pfurtscheller, AR Schwerdtfeger, B Rassler… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The origin of slow intrinsic oscillations in resting states of functional magnetic resonance
imaging (fMRI) signals is still a matter of debate. The present study aims to test the …

A paradigm to enhance motor imagery using rubber hand illusion induced by visuo-tactile stimulus

M Song, J Kim - IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Enhancing motor imagery (MI) results in amplified event-related desynchronization (ERD)
and is important for MI-based rehabilitation and brain-computer interface (BCI) applications …

Feelings from the heart: Developing HRV decrease‐trigger algorithms via multilevel hyperplane simulation to detect psychosocially meaningful episodes in everyday …

AR Schwerdtfeger, C Rominger - Psychophysiology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Heart rate variability (HRV) has been associated with diverse psychosocial concepts, like
stress, anxiety, depression, rumination, social support, and positive affect, among others …