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Autonomic balance revisited: Panic anxiety and heart rate variability
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The analysis of heart rate variability (HRV) is becoming widely used in clinical research to provide a window into autonomic control of HR. This technique has been valuable in elucidating the autonomic underpinnings of panic disorder (PD), a condition that is marked by reports of heart palpitations. A body of research has emerged that implicates a relative reduction in HRV and cardiac vagal tone in PD, as indicated by various HRV measures. These data are consistent with the cardiac symptoms of panic attacks, as well as with developmental evidence that links high vagal tone with enhanced attention, effective emotion regulation, and organismic responsivity. Implications of these findings for nosology and pathophysiology are discussed. Reports of reduced HRV in PD contrast with portrayals of excess autonomic lability in anxiety. This contradiction is addressed in the context of traditional homeostatic models versus a systems perspective that views physiologic variability as essential to overall stability.
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“the vagus nerve innervates a number of end organs that are involved in emotion and communication (i.e., larynx, facial muscles, Porges, 1995), and the vagal input to the heart can be quickly withdrawn to allow rapid mobilization of the body to meet a variety of environmental and metabolic demands; these include physical exercise, coping with negative emotion (e.g., Beauchaine, 2001; Friedman & Tha”
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- Authors
- Friedman, B. H., & Thayer, J. F.
- Affiliations
- Washington University in St. Louis (US)
- University of Missouri (US)
- Corresponding author
- Friedman, Bruce H.
- Venue
- Journal of Psychosomatic Research
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 1998-01
- Volume
- 44
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 133-151
- ISSN
- 0022-3999 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2167377065
- Cited by
- 616
- References
- 173
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 2.04
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Psychosomatic Research (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine › Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine › Cardiac Health and Mental Health
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Keywords
- heart rate variability, panic disorder, sympathovagal balance, cardiac vagal tone, palpitations, anxiety, emotion regulation, homeostatic model, systems approach, disease classification, pathophysiology
- MeSH terms
- Anxiety Disorders, Arrhythmias, Cardiac, Autonomic Nervous System, Epinephrine, Heart Rate, Homeostasis, Humans, Models, Biological, Sympathetic Nervous System, Vagus Nerve, Comorbidity, Panic Disorder
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