Cardiorespiratory and Cardiosomatic Psychophysiology

ISBN-13: 9781475703627 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 368 str.

P. Grossman;K. H. L. Janssen;D. Vaitl

Spis treści

and Theoretical Overview.- Physiological Mechanisms.- Integrative Control Mechanisms for Cardiorespiratory and Somatomotor Functions in the Reticular Formation of the Lower Brain Stem.- A Physiological Review of Mechanisms Involved in the Cardiovascular Correlates of Muscular Activity.- Relations between Changes in Cardiac Parasympathetic Activity and Heart Rate Variability.- Quantification and Validation of Models.- Investigating Heart Rate Variability: Problems and Pitfalls.- Heart Rate Variability in Normal Adults.- Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia: Physiological Basis, Quantitative Methods, and Clinical Implications.- Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia and Parasympathetic Cardiac Control: Some Basic Issues Concerning Quantification, Applications and Implications.- Cardiac-Respiratory Integration: Implications for the Analysis and Interpretation of Phasic Cardiac Responses.- Psychophysiological Approaches.- Behavioral Modulation of Cardiovascular and Somatomotor-Cardiovascular Interactions in the Non-Human Primate.- Factors Influencing the Covariation of Heart Rate and Oxygen Consumption J. Brener.- The Integration and Differentiation of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Responses to Stress.- The Hierarchical Order of Cardiovascular-Respiratory Coupling.- Patterns of Cardiovascular-Somatic-Respiratory Interactions in the Continuous Perceptual-Motor Task Paradigm.- Biofeedback and Self-Regulation.- Biofeedback-Assisted Heart Rate Deceleration: Specificity of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Effects in Normal and High-Risk Subjects.- The Use of Feedback to Reduce the Cardiovascular Response to Exercise.- Spectral Analysis of Biofeedback Induced Heart Rate Decreases in Sinus Tachycardia.- Biofeedback-Assisted Control of Heart Period Variability.- Clinical Applications.- Hyperventilation as Diagnostic Stress Test for Variant Angina and Cardiomyopathy: Cardiovascular Responses, Likely Triggering Mechanisms and Psychophysiological Implications.- Hyperventilation and Ischaemic Heart Disease.- Vasovagal Syncope: Antecedent Psychosocial Factors and Pathophysiology.- Heart Rate Variability in Autonomic Neuropaths and Newborn Babies.- Contributors.

O autorze

Prof. Dr. Dieter Vaitl ist Lehrstuhlinhaber für Klinische und Physiologische Psychologie an der Universität Gießen.