Heart rate variability and slow-paced breathing: when coherence meets resonance

C Sevoz-Couche, S Laborde - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
Clinical research on the beneficial effects induced by slow-paced breathing has been
increasingly extended in the past twenty years. Improvements in cardiovascular functioning …

Heart rate variability biofeedback improves emotional and physical health and performance: A systematic review and meta analysis

P Lehrer, K Kaur, A Sharma, K Shah, R Huseby… - Applied …, 2020 - Springer
We performed a systematic and meta analytic review of heart rate variability biofeedback
(HRVB) for various symptoms and human functioning. We analyzed all problems addressed …

The effect of heart rate variability biofeedback training on stress and anxiety: a meta-analysis

VC Goessl, JE Curtiss, SG Hofmann - Psychological medicine, 2017 - cambridge.org
BackgroundSome evidence suggests that heart rate variability (HRV) biofeedback might be
an effective way to treat anxiety and stress symptoms. To examine the effect of HRV …

Effectiveness of diaphragmatic breathing for reducing physiological and psychological stress in adults: a quantitative systematic review

SI Hopper, SL Murray, LR Ferrara… - JBI Evidence …, 2019 - journals.lww.com
Objective: The objective of this review was to evaluate the effectiveness of diaphragmatic
breathing for reducing physiological and psychological stress in adults 18 years and over …

Guidelines for Reporting Articles on Psychiatry and Heart rate variability (GRAPH): recommendations to advance research communication

DS Quintana, GA Alvares, JAJ Heathers - Translational psychiatry, 2016 - nature.com
The number of publications investigating heart rate variability (HRV) in psychiatry and the
behavioral sciences has increased markedly in the last decade. In addition to the significant …

Vagal tank theory: the three rs of cardiac vagal control functioning–resting, reactivity, and recovery

S Laborde, E Mosley, A Mertgen - Frontiers in neuroscience, 2018 - frontiersin.org
The aim of this paper is to set the stage for the vagal tank theory, showcasing a functional
resource account for self-regulation. The vagal tank theory, building on neurophysiological …

The relationship between mental and physical health: insights from the study of heart rate variability

AH Kemp, DS Quintana - International journal of Psychophysiology, 2013 - Elsevier
Here we review our recent body of work on the impact of mood and comorbid anxiety
disorders, alcohol dependence, and their treatments on heart rate variability (HRV), a …

Performance anxiety in professional musicians: a systematic review on prevalence, risk factors and clinical treatment effects

I Fernholz, JLM Mumm, J Plag, K Noeres… - Psychological …, 2019 - cambridge.org
Music performance anxiety (MPA) is one of the most common disorders among professional
musicians, nevertheless, little is known about the disease. With this systematic review …

Biofeedback for everyday stress management: A systematic review

B Yu, M Funk, J Hu, Q Wang, L Feijs - Frontiers in ICT, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Background: Mainly due to an increase in stress-related health problems and driven by
recent technological advances in biosensors, microelectronics, computing platform, and …

The impact of resonance frequency breathing on measures of heart rate variability, blood pressure, and mood

PR Steffen, T Austin, A DeBarros, T Brown - Frontiers in public health, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Heart rate variability biofeedback (HRVB) significantly improves heart rate variability (HRV).
Breathing at resonance frequency (RF, approximately 6 breaths/min) constitutes a key part …