The aim was to clarify the developmental nature of associations between psychiatric illness
and risk for cardiovascular disease by investigating differences in cardiac functioning …

Objective: To examine in a nonclinical sample of preadolescents the possibility that somatic
and cognitive-affective depressive symptoms are differentially related with the autonomic …

Anxiety has been proposed to influence psychophysiological reactivity in children and
adolescents. However, the extant empirical literature has not always found physiological …

Background Psychophysiological theories suggest that individuals with anxiety disorders
may evidence inflexibility in their autonomic activity at rest and when responding to …

Background There is considerable evidence documenting associations between early life
adversity, behavioral disengagement, and depression with blunted cardiovascular reactivity …

Background It is of debate whether or not childhood anxiety disorders (AD) can be captured
by one taxonomic construct. This study examined whether perceived arousal (PA) …

Vagal tone is a measure of cardiovascular function that facilitates adaptive responses to
environmental challenge. Low vagal tone is associated with poor emotional and attentional …

Objective This study evaluated the prospective relationship between cardiovascular
reactivity to psychological stress and increases in resting blood pressure across a 3-year …

Background We examined the longitudinal associations of autonomic nervous system (ANS)
and hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis rest and reactivity measures with anxiety and …

Background: The aim of this study was to identify the aspects of cardiac physiology
associated with depressive disorder early in life by examining measures of autonomic …