Decreased Premature Ventricular Contractions Through Use of the Relaxation Response in Patients With Stable Ischæmic Heart-Disease

Benson, Herbert; Alexander, Sidney; Feldman, CharlesL.

doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(75)92895-0

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“…''one'') have long been known to reduce anxiety and stress (e.g. Benson, Alexander, & Feldman, 1975) the present experiments are the first to show that the procedure alters the believability of negative self-referential thoughts and the discomfort they occasion, and does so in a fashion that fits with the hypothesized nature of defusion interventions more generally (see Hayes etal., 1999).…”

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Cognitive defusion and self-relevant negative thoughts: examining the impact of a ninety year old technique

Masuda

Hayes

Sackett

et al. 2004

Behaviour Research and Therapy

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Cognitive defusion techniques are designed to reduce the functions of thoughts by altering the context in which they occur, rather than the attempting to alter the form, frequency, or situational sensitivity of the thoughts themselves. Applied technologies designed to produce cognitive defusion seem to lead to reductions in the believability of negative thoughts, but defusion techniques are generally only parts of complex packages and the role of defusion techniques per se is not yet known. The present study examined the impact of a cognitive defusion technique first described by Titchener nearly 90 years ago: rapidly repeating a single word. In series of eight single-case alternating treatment designs, this defusion technique was compared to a distraction task, and to a thought control task on reductions in the discomfort and believability of self-relevant negative thoughts. The cognitive defusion technique reduced both discomfort and believability more so than the comparison approaches. Control studies showed that the effect was probably not due to demand characteristics.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 61%

Cognitive defusion and self-relevant negative thoughts: examining the impact of a ninety year old technique

Masuda

Hayes

Sackett

et al. 2004

Behaviour Research and Therapy

251

187

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“…Others have suggested a link between anxiety and electrical instability of the myocardium; electrophysiology studies have shown that ventricular premature beats increase with stimulation from certain psychological stressors 34,35 and decrease with a reduction in sympathetic neural inputs. 36,37 An association between chronic anxiety and arrhythmia has not been established, however.…”

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Prognostic Value of Anxiety and Depression in Patients With Chronic Heart Failure

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Background— Anxiety is often present with depression and may be one of its manifestations. Although the adverse effects of depression in patients with chronic heart failure (CHF) have been well studied, the relation between anxiety and CHF prognosis has not been addressed. In a secondary analysis of data collected for a published study of depression and prognosis in patients with CHF, we examined the relations among anxiety, depression, and prognosis. Methods and Results— We measured symptoms of anxiety with the Spielberger State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) scale and symptoms of depression with the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) scale in 291 patients with CHF hospitalized as a result of cardiac events. We followed up these patients for all-cause mortality over 1 year. The mean scores for state anxiety (State-A) and trait anxiety (Trait-A) were identical at 33.5; the mean BDI score was 8.7±7.6. State-A and Trait-A scores correlated highly with each other ( r =0.85; P <0.01) and with BDI score (State-A, r =0.52; Trait-A, r =0.59; P <0.01). Cox proportional-hazards model with and without confounding variables showed no relation between State-A or Trait-A and 1-year mortality. BDI scores, however, significantly predicted increased mortality during 1-year follow-up (hazard ratio, 1.04 for each 1-unit increase; P <0.01). Conclusions— Although anxiety and depression are highly correlated in CHF patients, depression alone predicts a significantly worse prognosis for these patients.

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“…This approach thus appears well suited to explore the impact of stress on autonomic cardiovascular control and the possible effects of suggested countermeasures. 19,20 The aim of our study was to test whether patients with symptoms of chronic psychosocial stress, in absence of clinically manifested illness, show signs of autonomic dysregulation, as assessed through a noninvasive approach based on spectral analysis of cardiovascular variabilities.…”

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Impact of Chronic Psychosocial Stress on Autonomic Cardiovascular Regulation in Otherwise Healthy Subjects

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Abstract-Elevated psychosocial stress might favor the occurrence of cardiovascular disease; however, mechanisms are incompletely understood. We hypothesized that patients (nϭ126; 44Ϯ1 years of age) referred to an internal medicine clinic because of symptoms related to chronic psychosocial stress would demonstrate signs of autonomic dysregulation compared with controls (nϭ132; 42Ϯ1 years of age). We used autoregressive spectral analysis of RR interval variability to obtain indirect markers of sympathetic and of vagal (respectively, low-frequency and high-frequency components, both expressed in normalized units) oscillatory modulation of sinoatrial node, as well as of sympathetic vasomotor regulation (low-frequency component of systolic arterial pressure variability) and of cardiac baroreflex sensitivity (␣-index

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Decreased Premature Ventricular Contractions Through Use of the Relaxation Response in Patients With Stable Ischæmic Heart-Disease

Cited by 103 publications

References 14 publications

Cognitive defusion and self-relevant negative thoughts: examining the impact of a ninety year old technique

Cognitive defusion and self-relevant negative thoughts: examining the impact of a ninety year old technique

Prognostic Value of Anxiety and Depression in Patients With Chronic Heart Failure

Impact of Chronic Psychosocial Stress on Autonomic Cardiovascular Regulation in Otherwise Healthy Subjects

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