Cardiac autonomic activity predicts dominance in verbal over spatial reasoning tasks: Results from a preliminary study

Solernó, Juan I.; Chada, Daniel Pérez; Guinjoan, Salvador M.; Lloret, Santiago Pérez; Hedderwick, Alejandro; Vidal, María Florencia; Cardinali, Daniel P.; Vigo, Daniel Eduardo

doi:10.1016/j.autneu.2011.10.008

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“…Only Britton et al (2008) fail to find this relationship. Specifically, a low HRV was related to poorer performance (Melis and Van Boxtel, 2001; Kim et al, 2006; Solernó et al, 2012; Frewen et al, 2013; Zeki Al Hazzouri et al, 2014; Mahinrad et al, 2016) also after the adjustment of data for demographic, clinical and behavioral confounding variables (Kim et al, 2006; Frewen et al, 2013; Zeki Al Hazzouri et al, 2014; Mahinrad et al, 2016).…”

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“…Heart rate variability was evaluated considering time-domain analyses (Hansen et al, 2003; Zeki Al Hazzouri et al, 2014, 2017), frequency-domain analyses (Melis and Van Boxtel, 2001; Hansen et al, 2004; Duschek et al, 2009; Drucaroff et al, 2011; Kimhy et al, 2013; Gillie et al, 2014; Mann et al, 2015; Mahinrad et al, 2016; Williams et al, 2016; Colzato and Steenbergen, 2017; Colzato et al, 2018), or both (Kim et al, 2006; Britton et al, 2008; Drucaroff et al, 2011; Solernó et al, 2012; Frewen et al, 2013; Colzato et al, 2018; Ottaviani et al, 2018).…”

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“…The HF-HRV analysis was the most frequently reported (Melis and Van Boxtel, 2001; Hansen et al, 2003, 2004; Kim et al, 2006; Britton et al, 2008; Drucaroff et al, 2011; Shah et al, 2011; Solernó et al, 2012; Kimhy et al, 2013; Gillie et al, 2014; Mann et al, 2015; Mahinrad et al, 2016; Williams et al, 2016; Colzato and Steenbergen, 2017; Colzato et al, 2018; Ottaviani et al, 2018). The LF/HF HRV ratio (Frewen et al, 2013), the LF-HRV band (Britton et al, 2008; Drucaroff et al, 2011; Frewen et al, 2013; Gillie et al, 2014), the mid-frequency (MF) HRV band (Melis and Van Boxtel, 2001; Duschek et al, 2009), the standard deviation of mean RR interval (SDNN) (Britton et al, 2008; Drucaroff et al, 2011; Solernó et al, 2012; Frewen et al, 2013; Zeki Al Hazzouri et al, 2014, 2017) and the square root of the mean squared differences of successive RR intervals (RMSSD) (Kim et al, 2006; Solernó et al, 2012; Zeki Al Hazzouri et al, 2014, 2017; Colzato et al, 2018; Ottaviani et al, 2018) were also evaluated.…”

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“…Lower LF-HRV, which is influenced by both sympathetic and parasympathetic branches of ANS, was linked to worse cognitive performance, in particular considering memory, language and global cognitive scores (Solernó et al, 2012; Frewen et al, 2013). Melis and Van Boxtel (2001) reported that high MF (Mid-Frequency band: 0.06–0.14 Hz), regulated by both the sympathetic and parasympathetic branches of the ANS, was associated with better performance in spatial tasks and to poorer verbal reasoning ability, while high HF-HRV was associated with better verbal reasoning ability.…”

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“…Melis and Van Boxtel (2001) reported that high MF (Mid-Frequency band: 0.06–0.14 Hz), regulated by both the sympathetic and parasympathetic branches of the ANS, was associated with better performance in spatial tasks and to poorer verbal reasoning ability, while high HF-HRV was associated with better verbal reasoning ability. On the other hand, lower HF-HRV, which reflects vagal modulation, appears to be associated with weaker performance in global cognitive functions, such as those measured by the Mini-Mental State Examination (Kim et al, 2006), verbal reasoning abilities (Solernó et al, 2012), inhibition of memory responses (Gillie et al, 2014), or executive functions (Hansen et al, 2004; Mann et al, 2015; Mahinrad et al, 2016; Colzato and Steenbergen, 2017). These results can be due to the lateralisation of autonomic functions (Melis and Van Boxtel, 2001).…”

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Heart Rate Variability and Cognitive Function: A Systematic Review

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Background: Autonomic dysfunctions may precede the development of cognitive impairment, but the connection between these dimensions is unclear. This systematic review aims to analyze the relationship between heart rate variability (HRV) and cognitive functions. Methods: The review process was conducted according to the PRISMA-Statement. Restrictions were made, selecting the studies in English and published in peer-review journals, including at least one cognitive measure and presenting the measurement of HRV. Studies that included participants with medical conditions, dementia, psychiatric disorders, strokes, and traumatic brain injury were excluded. Twenty studies were selected, with a total of 19,431 participants. The results were divided into different cognitive domains determined a priori : global cognitive functioning, attention, processing speed, executive functions, memory, language and visuospatial skills. Results: Both increased sympathetic activity and decreased parasympathetic activity seem to be associated with a worse performance in the cognitive domains considered, in the absence of dementia and severe cardiovascular diseases or other medical and psychiatric diseases. Conclusion: The results highlight the influence of the autonomic nervous system (ANS) in cognitive functioning. However, the marked interest facing toward a specific domain, i.e., the executive functions, and the relatively small number of the studies on this topic do not allow understanding better this relationship. Despite these limits, HRV could be considered a promising early biomarker of cognitive impairment in populations without dementia or stroke. This index should be evaluated within a preventative perspective to minimize the risk of developing cognitive impairment.

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A Narrative Review of Heart Rate Variability as a Good Index of Psychophysical Health in Athletes and in Biofeedback Training

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Guidotti

2024

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Stress is a psychophysical condition that causes an impairment in athletes’ performance by causing an increase in sympathetic activity and an autonomic imbalance. The current methods for the measurement of psychophysiological stress introduce the use of the heart rate variability as a useful index of the well-being of these people. The heart rate variability corresponds to the time intervals between consecutive heartbeats, such as an irregularity in the normal sinus heart rhythm whose variability is due to the control exercised by a complex system of mechanisms, including the respiratory control system, and provides information about the activity of the sympathetic and parasympathetic branches of the autonomic nervous system. This review aims at summarizing the promising results, despite small amount, of the recent literature on the efficacy of heart rate variability biofeedback on the autonomic imbalance and psychophysical well-being of athletes as well as cognitive and motor performance.

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Associations between Heart Rate Variability and Brain Activity during a Working Memory Task: A Preliminary Electroencephalogram Study on Depression and Anxiety Disorder

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Heart rate variability (HRV) has been suggested to reflect executive function and related neural activity. Executive dysfunction has been suggested to play an important role in the pathophysiology of emotional disorders. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether HRV showed a significant correlation with electroencephalogram (EEG) during a working memory performance in patients with depressive or anxiety disorder. A retrospective analysis was conducted with data from 61 patients with depressive disorder (43 women and 18 men) and 59 patients with anxiety disorder (35 women and 24 men). HRV was measured in the resting state, and EEG was recorded in the resting state and during the execution of a working memory task. It was performed in patients with depressive and anxiety disorder, and the paired sample t-test between resting state and task performance, as well as the partial correlation analysis between HRV and EEG, was conducted. Both depressed and anxious patients showed weaker beta relative power during the working memory task compared to the rest period. The resting-state EEG did not correlate with HRV parameters in both groups. In depressed patients, HRV showed a positive correlation with delta power during the task and a negative correlation with beta relative power during the task. In patients with anxiety disorder, HRV showed a significant positive correlation with theta power of the right frontal region during the task. Our results suggest that HRV would be related to executive-function-related neural activity in patients with depressive or anxiety disorder. Future studies with more subjects, including healthy controls, are needed to verify the correlation between HRV and EEG and to come up with a more comprehensive picture of neurobiological changes in emotional disorders.

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Cardiac autonomic activity predicts dominance in verbal over spatial reasoning tasks: Results from a preliminary study

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References 17 publications

Heart Rate Variability and Cognitive Function: A Systematic Review

Heart Rate Variability and Cognitive Function: A Systematic Review

A Narrative Review of Heart Rate Variability as a Good Index of Psychophysical Health in Athletes and in Biofeedback Training

Associations between Heart Rate Variability and Brain Activity during a Working Memory Task: A Preliminary Electroencephalogram Study on Depression and Anxiety Disorder

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