Stability of heart rate variability indices reflecting parasympathetic activity

Bertsch, Katja; Hagemann, Dirk; Naumann, Ewald; Schächinger, Hartmut; Schulz, André

doi:10.1111/j.1469-8986.2011.01341.x

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“…Another issue concerning the assessment of resting state vagal tone by measures of vmHRV is the trait specificity that can increase under well-controlled recording conditions (i.e., when breathing is controlled for) (Bertsch et al, 2012). It is well known, that respiration has a greater effect on RSA (assessed using the peak-to-trough method) and HF-HRV than on RMSSD.…”

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Resting state vagal tone in borderline personality disorder: A meta-analysis

Koenig

Kemp

Feeling

et al. 2016

Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry

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Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is the most common personality disorder in clinical settings. It is characterized by negative affectivity, emotional liability, anxiety, depression, as well as disinhibition (i.e., impulsivity and risk taking), all of which have been linked to lower resting state vagal tone, which may be indexed by vagally-mediated heart rate variability (vmHRV). Here, we aimed to quantify the current evidence on alterations in resting state vmHRV in individuals with BPD, relative to healthy controls. A rigorous search of the literature, according to the "Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses", revealed 5 studies suitable for meta-analysis, reporting vmHRV in individuals with BPD (n=95), relative to healthy controls (n=105). Short-term measures of resting state vmHRV were extracted and subjected to meta-analysis using both random- and fixed effect models in RevMan. BPD displayed lower resting state vmHRV relative to healthy controls in random- (Hedges' g=-0.59, 95% CI [-1.11; -0.06], k=5) and fixed-effect meta-analysis (Hedges' g=-0.56, 95% CI [-0.86; -0.27], k=5). Control for potential publication bias did not change observed findings. Lowered resting state vagal tone may be an important trait characteristic underlying BPD. As prior studies have observed lowered vmHRV in a variety of psychiatric disorders, we propose that lowered vmHRV may reflect a common psychophysiological mechanism underlying difficulties in emotion regulation and impulsivity, in particular.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Resting state vagal tone in borderline personality disorder: A meta-analysis

Koenig

Kemp

Feeling

et al. 2016

Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry

112

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“…To standardize mental activity and ensure a neutral character of this baseline assessment, we used a minimally demanding task in the form of a neutral film (as recommended by Jennings, Kamarck, Stewart, Eddy, & Johnson, 1992). Furthermore, it has been recommended to use a second baseline measurement when assessing resting CVC to estimate its consistency across situations (Bertsch, Hagemann, Naumann, Schachinger, & Schulz, 2012). Therefore, we included a second baseline, the 2-min prefilm baseline (quiet sitting before the neutral film started) to confirm that this would provide the same results.…”

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Cardiac Vagal Control and Depressive Symptoms: The Moderating Role of Sleep Quality

Werner

Ford

Mauss

et al. 2016

Behavioral Sleep Medicine

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Lower cardiac vagal control (CVC) has been linked to greater depression. However, this link has not been consistently demonstrated, suggesting the presence of key moderators. Sleep plausibly is one such factor. Therefore, we investigated whether sleep quality moderates the link between CVC (quantified by high-frequency heart rate variability, HF-HRV) and depressive symptoms (assessed using established questionnaires) in 29 healthy women. Results revealed a significant interaction between HF-HRV and sleep quality in predicting depressive symptoms: participants with lower HF-HRV reported elevated depressive symptoms only when sleep quality was also low. In contrast, HF-HRV was not associated with depressive symptoms when sleep quality was high, suggesting a protective function of high sleep quality in the context of lower CVC.

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“…Vagally mediated HRV during exposure to an emotionally salient stimulus relative to baseline under resting conditions can indicate ongoing emotion regulation processes such as effortful adaptive coping or acute stress [2,16]. HRV measures are shown to reflect considerable variance in emotional states [12]. Thus, HRV reactivity is a frequently used sensitive measure of emotional reactivity [64].…”

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Emotion regulatory function of parent attention to child pain and associated implications for parental pain control behaviour

Vervoort

Trost

Sütterlin

et al. 2014

Pain

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We investigated the function of parental attention to child pain in regulating parental distress and pain control behaviour when observing their child performing a painful (cold pressor) task (CPT); we also studied the moderating role of parental state anxiety. Participants were 62 schoolchildren and one of their parents. Parental attention towards or away from child pain (ie, attend to pain vs avoid pain) was experimentally manipulated during a viewing task pairing unfamiliar children's neutral and pain faces. Before and after the viewing task, parental distress regulation was assessed by heart rate (HR) and heart rate variability (HRV). In a subsequent phase, parents observed their own child perform a CPT task, allowing assessment of parental pain control behaviour (indexed by latency to stop their child's CPT performance) and parental distress, which was assessed via self-report before and after observation of child CPT performance. Eye tracking during the viewing task and self-reported attention to own child's pain confirmed successful attention manipulation. Further, findings indicated that the effect of attentional strategy on parental emotion regulation (indexed by HR, self-report) and pain control behaviour depended on parents' state anxiety. Specifically, whereas low anxious parents reported more distress and demonstrated more pain control behaviour in the Attend to Pain condition, high anxious parents reported more distress and showed more pain control behaviour in the Avoid Pain condition. This inverse pattern was likewise apparent in physiological distress indices (HR) in response to the initial viewing task. Theoretical/clinical implications and further research directions are discussed

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Stability of heart rate variability indices reflecting parasympathetic activity

Cited by 146 publications

References 51 publications

Resting state vagal tone in borderline personality disorder: A meta-analysis

Resting state vagal tone in borderline personality disorder: A meta-analysis

Cardiac Vagal Control and Depressive Symptoms: The Moderating Role of Sleep Quality

Emotion regulatory function of parent attention to child pain and associated implications for parental pain control behaviour

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