Evidence suggests affective disorders such as depression and bipolar disorder are
characterised by dysregulated autonomic nervous system (ANS) activity. These findings …

Aims Patients with anxiety disorders (AD) have been found to have lower heart rate
variability (HRV) than healthy individuals in some studies, but this was inconsistent …

Increasing evidence suggests that mental health and physical health are linked by neural
systems that jointly regulate somatic physiology and high-level cognition. Key systems …

Psychophysiological research integrating heart rate variability (HRV) has increased during
the last two decades, particularly given the fact that HRV is able to index cardiac vagal tone …

Abstract The Spielberger State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) has been widely used to
measure the state and trait components of anxiety. We sought to develop a short, yet reliable …

The literature regarding exercise for people with established anxiety disorders is equivocal.
To address this issue, we conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis investigating …

A recent increase in the literature regarding the evidence base for clozapine has made it
increasingly difficult for clinicians to judge “best evidence” for clozapine use. As such, we …

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 …

Researchers have increasingly begun to use consumer wearables or wrist-worn
smartwatches and fitness monitors for measurement of cardiovascular psychophysiological …

Background: Depression is a severe disease with great burdens for the affected individuals
and public health care systems. Autonomic nervous system (ANS) dysfunction indexed by …