Theoretical perspectives posit that heart-rate variability (HRV) reflects self-regulatory
capacity and therefore can be employed as a bio-marker of top-down self-regulation (the …

Over the past decade, our understanding of the role of stress in serious mental illness has
become more sophisticated. In this paper, we revisit the neural diathesis-stress model of …

The parasympathetic nervous system modulates inflammation through efferent vagus nerve
signaling. Tracey (2002) termed this process as the cholinergic anti-inflammatory pathway …

Low resting respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) is observed in many mental health
conditions, including anxiety disorders, mood disorders, schizophrenia spectrum disorders …

The biopsychosocial model of challenge and threat states specifies that these states
engender different physiological and behavioral responses in potentially stressful situations …

Despite a need for developmental and clinical research to understand how parents regulate
their emotions in the context of parent–child interaction, empirical studies of parental …

Hypotheses about change over time are central to informing our understanding of
development. Developmental neuroscience is at critical juncture: although the majority of …

Background Depression rates increase markedly for girls across the adolescent transition,
but the social‐environmental and biological processes underlying this phenomenon remain …

The current study examined associations between adolescent respiratory sinus arrhythmia
(RSA) during an angry event discussion task and adolescents' emotion regulation and …

Psychophysiology—the study of interactions between physiological systems and
psychological states and traits—has a long history of use in psychopathology research …