Posts Tagged ‘Marian-Diamond’
Heart Rate Variability as an Index of Regulated Emotional Responding
Continuing with the theme of a Week of Science sponsored by Just Science, we will highlight some of the key points in: Appelhans BM, Luecken LJ. Heart Rate Variability as an Index of Regulated Emotional Responding. Review of General Psychology. 2006;10:229–240. Effective emotional regulation depends on being able to flexibly adjust your physiological response to a changing environment moment by moment.Heart rate variability (HRV) is a measure of the continuous interplay between sympathetic and parasympathetic influences on heart rate that yields information about autonomic flexibility and thereby represents the capacity for regulated emotional responding.
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