Preliminary Results of an Open Label Study of Heart Rate Variability Biofeedback for the Treatment of Major Depression

Karavidas, Maria Katsamanis; Lehrer, Paul M.; Vaschillo, Evgeny; Vaschillo, Bronya; Marín, Humberto; Buyske, Steven; Malinovsky, Igor; Radvanski, Diane C.; Hassett, Afton L.

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“…We know from existing studies that a carry-over effect does exist, at least on HRV and in the short term. For example, Karavidas et al (2007) and Zucker et al (2009) both reported increased SDNN during the 5-minute resting period immediately following RFB, when compared to the preintervention resting period. However, we do not know how long this beneficial effect on HRV actually lasts, and what would be the factors responsible for intra-and inter-individual variations.…”

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confidence: 93%

Favouring emotional processing in improvisational music therapy through resonance frequency breathing: a single-case experimental study with a healthy client

Brabant

Solati

Letulė

et al. 2017

Nordic Journal of Music Therapy

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Favouring emotional processing in improvisational music therapy through resonance frequency breathing: a single-case experimental study with a healthy client

Brabant

Solati

Letulė

et al. 2017

Nordic Journal of Music Therapy

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“…Considering that perseverative cognition is one of the most difficult symptoms to treat in anxiety, our results may also have important implications for therapy. HRV is a significant predictor of treatment response and remission from major depression (Chambers and Allen, 2002;Jain et al, 2014), and HRV biofeedback is a promising tool for the treatment of mood disorder (Karavidas et al, 2007). Our results argue for the extension of these pilot intervention studies to anxiety disorders.…”

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confidence: 77%

Neurobiological substrates of cognitive rigidity and autonomic inflexibility in generalized anxiety disorder

Ottaviani

Watson

Meeten

et al. 2016

Biological Psychology

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Neurobiological substrates of cognitive rigidity and autonomic inflexibility in generalized anxiety disorder.Biological Psychology http://dx.doi.org/10. 1016/j.biopsycho.2016.06.009 This is a PDF file of an unedited manuscript that has been accepted for publication. As a service to our customers we are providing this early version of the manuscript. The manuscript will undergo copyediting, typesetting, and review of the resulting proof before it is published in its final form. Please note that during the production process errors may be discovered which could affect the content, and all legal disclaimers that apply to the journal pertain.  Trait worry was inversely related with prefrontal deactivation to target detection. HRV predicted neural activation changes produced by attentional focus switching. A worry induction increased pre-to post-target deactivation of default mode areas. The induction reduced behavioural and neurobiological differences between groups. AbstractGeneralized anxiety disorder (GAD) is characterized by difficulties in inhibiting both perseverative thoughts (worry and rumination) and autonomic arousal. We investigated the neurobiological substrates of such abnormal inhibitory processes, hypothesizing aberrant functional coupling within 'default mode' (DMN) and autonomic brain networks. Functional imaging and heart rate variability (HRV) data were acquired from GAD patients and controls during performance of three tracking tasks interspersed with a perseverative cognition (PC) induction. After detection of infrequent target stimuli, activity within putative DMN hubs was suppressed, consistent with a redirection of attentional resources from internal to external focus. This magnitude of activity change was attenuated in patients and individuals with higher trait PC, but was predicted by individual differences in HRV. Following the induction of PC in controls, this pattern of neural reactivity became closer to that of GAD patients. Results support, at a neural level, the association between cognitive inflexibility and autonomic rigidity.

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“…The relaxation effect of HRV biofeedback has been well demonstrated in various studies [16,21,36,47]. The Interstress project, which focused on developing therapeutic solutions to stress, also employed biofeedback as a stress reducing technique [43].…”

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Mobile Stress Recognition and Relaxation Support with SmartCoping: User-Adaptive Interpretation of Physiological Stress Parameters

Reimer¹,

Laurenzi²,

Maier³

et al. 2017

Proceedings of the 50th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (2017)

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The paper describes a mobile solution for the early recognition and management of stress based on continuous monitoring of heart rate variability (HRV) and contextual data (activity, location, etc.). A central contribution is the automatic calibration of measured HRV values to perceived stress levels during an initial learning phase where the user provides feedback when prompted by the system. This is crucial as HRV varies greatly among people. A data mining component identifies recurrent stress situations so that people can develop appropriate stress avoidance and coping strategies. A biofeedback component based on breathing exercises helps users relax. The solution is being tested by healthy volunteers before conducting a clinical study with patients after alcohol detoxification.

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Preliminary Results of an Open Label Study of Heart Rate Variability Biofeedback for the Treatment of Major Depression

Cited by 383 publications

References 48 publications

Favouring emotional processing in improvisational music therapy through resonance frequency breathing: a single-case experimental study with a healthy client

Favouring emotional processing in improvisational music therapy through resonance frequency breathing: a single-case experimental study with a healthy client

Neurobiological substrates of cognitive rigidity and autonomic inflexibility in generalized anxiety disorder

Mobile Stress Recognition and Relaxation Support with SmartCoping: User-Adaptive Interpretation of Physiological Stress Parameters

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