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

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A Practical Guide to Resonance Frequency Assessment for Heart Rate Variability Biofeedback

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Single Slow-Paced Breathing Session at Six Cycles per Minute: Investigation of Dose-Response Relationship on Cardiac Vagal Activity

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Deep Rest: An Integrative Model of How Contemplative Practices Combat Stress and Enhance the Body’s Restorative Capacity

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Effects of Heart Rate Variability Biofeedback in Patients With Acute Ischemic Stroke: A Randomized Controlled Trial

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Yoga and psychiatric disorders: a review of biomarker evidence

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Acute effect of breathing exercises on muscle tension and executive function under psychological stress

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Respiratory Hypoalgesia? The Effect of Slow Deep Breathing on Electrocutaneous, Thermal, and Mechanical Pain

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Squeeze the beat: Enhancing cardiac vagal activity during resonance breathing via coherent pelvic floor recruitment

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Heart rate variability biofeedback in a global study of the most common coherence frequencies and the impact of emotional states

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Daily biofeedback to modulate heart rate oscillations affects structural volume in hippocampal subregions targeted by the locus coeruleus in older adults but not younger adults

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Resting Parasympathetic Nervous System Activity is Associated with Greater Antiviral Gene Expression

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Commentary: Photoplethysmography for Quantitative Assessment of Sympathetic Nerve Activity (SNA) During Cold Stress

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Heart Rate Variability and Erectile Function in Younger Men: A Pilot Study

Costa, R. M., Mangia, P., Pestana, J. O. M., & Costa, D. (2021) · Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback · doi:10.1007/s10484-020-09499-4 · Cited by 6 · see citing works

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D’Agostini, M., Claes, N., Franssen, M., von Leupoldt, A., & Diest, I. V. (2022) · International Journal of Psychophysiology · doi:10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2022.01.008 · Cited by 7 · see citing works

Presentation and Evaluation of a Manual for Heart Rate Variability Biofeedback in Somatic Symptom Disorder

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Understanding the mechanisms of sudden cardiac death in bipolar disorder: Functional asymmetry in brain-heart interactions as a potential culprit

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Real‐time heart rate variability biofeedback amplitude during a large‐scale digital mental health intervention differed by age, gender, and mental and physical health

Aschbacher, K., Mather, M., Lehrer, P. M., Gevirtz, R., Epel, E. S., & Peiper, N. C. (2024) · Psychophysiology · doi:10.1111/psyp.14533 · Cited by 5 · see citing works

Assessment of a dive incident using heart rate variability

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Michela, A., van Peer, J. M., Brammer, J. C., Nies, A., van Rooij, M. M. J. W., Oostenveld, R., Dorrestijn, W., Smit, A. S., Karin Roelofs, A., Klumpers, F., et al. (2021) · doi:10.31234/osf.io/3qnvk · Cited by 5 · see citing works

Unraveling the temporal interplay of slow‐paced breathing and prefrontal transcranial direct current stimulation on cardiac indices of autonomic activity

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The effectiveness of an osteopathic manual technique compared with a breathing exercise on vagal tone as indicated by heart rate variability, a crossover study

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Silence between words: Is solitude important for relatedness?

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Heart Rate Variability, Blood Pressure and Peripheral Oxygen Saturation during Yoga Adham and Mahat Breathing Techniques without Retention in Adult Practitioners

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Heart‐focused breathing technique and attitude breathing technique effects on heart rate variability in young healthy subjects

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Early life adversity blunts the subjective and physiological relaxation response in healthy adults

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Static Stretching Combined with Conscious Slower Breathing May Increase Parasympathetic Activity and Reduce Stress in Adult Women

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Physiological outcomes from mind-body resiliency programs in healthcare workers: A scoping review

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Cardiac Vagal Control and Emotional Awareness Associated With Pain Among Breast Cancer Survivors

Harel, K., Czamanski‐Cohen, J., Cohen, M. W., Lane, R. D., Allen, J. J. B., Caspi, O., & Weihs, K. L. (2025) · Psychophysiology · doi:10.1111/psyp.70086 · Cited by 2 · see citing works

Reliability and reactivity of heart rate variability and pupillometry in response to controlled autonomic perturbations in university students

Matyevich, M., Kingsley, M., Bice, R., Mortimer, M., Horan, B., Piantella, S., & Wright, B. J. (2025) · Behavior Research Methods · doi:10.3758/s13428-025-02793-1 · Cited by 3 · see citing works

Efficacy of Slow-Paced Breathing as a Just-in-Time Adaptive Intervention for Anxiety—A Randomized Controlled Study

Lachowicz, A. M., Houben, M., Ottaviani, C., Diest, I. V., Wampers, M., Cornelis, J. P., Myin‐Germeys, I., & Vaessen, T. (2026) · Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback · doi:10.1007/s10484-025-09760-8 · Cited by 2 · see citing works

The impact of unfavorable and toxic environmental conditions on autonomic tone modulations while wearing N95 face masks

Erkudov, V. O., Pugovkin, A., Rozumbetov, K. U., Матчанов, А. Т., Arachchi, S., & Rathnayake, U. (2024) · Case Studies in Chemical and Environmental Engineering · doi:10.1016/j.cscee.2024.100619 · Cited by 2 · see citing works

Heart Rate Variability during Nostril-Regulated Yoga Breathing: A Randomized Crossover Study

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Low-invasive multisensor real-time acquisition system for the assessment of cardiorespiratory and skin conductance parameters

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Assessment of Cardio-Respiratory Relationship during and after Exercise in Healthy Recreative Male Subjects: A Pilot Study

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Patients with borderline personality disorder show initially reduced psychophysiological relaxation levels but intact relaxation response

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Impact of Spinal Flexion and Extension-based Yoga Postures on Autonomic Nervous System Activity in Moderately Experienced Yoga Practitioners: A Randomized Crossover Trial

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Autonomic cardiac regulation to slow-paced respiration in seated and supine positions

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Brain–heart interplay modulation during biofeedback: A new frontier in understanding self-regulation

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Vagus nerve stimulation for the management of fibromyalgia

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Investigating the relationship between habitual physical activity and cardiovascular health in healthy and clinical populations

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COVID-19 and the Brain: Infection Mechanisms, Electroencephalographic Findings and Clinical Implications

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Biofeedback of Heart Rate Variability in the treatment of chronic diseases: A Systematic Review

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Dynamic Changes In Heart Rate Variability Under Threat: Exploring The Effects Of Emotion Regulation On The Parasympathetic Nervous System

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Heart Rate Variability and Respiration Rates during a Mindfulness Based Intervention for Health Care Professionals: Mindfulness in MotionPreprint

Justin, J. M., Klatt, M. D., Quatman‐Yates, C. C., Emerson, A. M., Kronenberg, J., Orr, M. L., Caputo, J., Daniel, K., Duchemin, A., Steinberg, B. A., et al. (2023) · Research Square · doi:10.21203/rs.3.rs-3314040/v1

The NeuPT HRV Diagnostic System has Clinical Utility in Measuring Acute Responses to Integrative TherapiesPreprint

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Cerebral autoregulation and autonomic nervous system: A narrative review

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SPECIAL ISSUE: Improve Client Care by Dispelling HRV Myths

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The Relationship of Pain Intensity, Perceived Injustice, and Pain Catastrophizing to Heart Rate Variability In Naturally Occurring Acute Pain

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WHAT HAPPENS IN VAGUS: EFFECTS OF YOGIC BREATHING ON AUTONOMIC REGULATION OF HEART RATE EXPLORED WITH PHARMACOLOGICAL BLOCKADES

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Acute Effects on Heart Rate Variability during Slow Deep Breathing.

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