Preliminary findings support the potential of yoga as a complementary treatment depressed patients who are taking anti-depressant medications but only in partial remission. The purpose this article is to present further data on intervention, focusing individual differences psychological, emotional and biological processes affecting outcome. Twenty-seven women 10 men were enrolled study, whom 17 completed intervention pre- post-intervention assessment data. consisted 20 classes led by senior...

This study was conducted to test the hypothesis that two films induce a sad feeling would elicit different physiological responses depending on an additional context of film contents related either avoidance (disgust) or attachment (tenderness). Reactivity evaluated for facial behavior, heart rate, pulse transit time, skin conductance, and subjective experience. Participants reported less happy showed increased activity content both films. The induced increase in conductance level response...

Abstract Contrasting findings on the mechanisms of chronic pain and hypertension development render current conventional evidence a negative relationship between blood pressure (BP) severity insufficient for developing personalized treatments. In this interdisciplinary study, patients with fibromyalgia (FM) exhibiting clinically normal or elevated BP, alongside healthy participants were assessed. Different sensitization responses evaluated using dynamic 'slowly repeated evoked pain' (SREP)...

On 4 days, in everyday situations, 21 female and 26 male smokers used an electronic diary to record situations moods at times of smoking control nonsmoking occasions. Self-reports particular locations, activities, posture, consumption, social context, moods, internal states were specifically associated with smoking. Real-time assessments provide useful information about the interplay environmental factors The findings suggest that conditioning learning processes play a role should be...

A lack of personalized approaches in non-medication pain management has prevented these alternative forms treatment from achieving the desired efficacy. One hundred and ten female patients with fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) 60 healthy women without chronic were assessed for severity or retrospective occasional pain, respectively, along alexithymia, depression, anxiety, coping strategies, personality traits. All analyses conducted following a 'resource matching' hypothesis predicting that to be...

Fibromyalgia is a long-term pain disorder that has been related to autonomic dysfunctions and reduced cardiovascular reactivity. We aimed assess the dynamic short-term responses postural changes in fibromyalgia. Thirty-eight women with fibromyalgia thirty-six healthy underwent "Chronic Pain Autonomic Stress Test". Electrocardiogram, blood pressure impedance cardiography were continuously recorded during active standing lying down. Second-by-second values derived over first 30 s of each...

<i>Background:</i> The aim of the study was to determine effects asymmetric cerebral embolic load on cognitive functions. <i>Methods:</i> Thirty-six open heart surgery (OH) and 26 coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) patients were evaluated by neuropsychological transcranial Doppler tests. <i>Results:</i> OH associated with a significantly larger microembolic in comparison CABG. In patients, at left middle correlated verbal memory decline, whereas right...

Fibromyalgia (FM) is a chronic pain disorder of unknown aetiopathogenesis, in which the role activity hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis not clearly established.

The major goals of this study were (1) to determine consistency autonomic response modes different laboratory stressors, and (2) evaluate the strength association between ambulatory heart rate variability. sample consisted 45 healthy participants. Parasympathetic (PNS) sympathetic (SNS) reactivity recovery from stressors (handgrip, logical-mathematical, mirror-tracing, rumination tasks) estimated by high frequency variability (HF-HRV), preejection period (PEP), baroreflex sensitivity (BRS)....

Abstract Background Objective measures of pain severity remain ill defined, although its accurate measurement is critical. Reciprocal baroreflex mechanisms blood pressure ( BP ) control were found to impact differently on regulation, and thus their asymmetry was hypothesized also connect chronic duration severity. Methods Seventy‐eight female patients with irritable bowel syndrome IBS 27 healthy women assessed for chronicity, negative affect, various resting autonomic function including ,...

Objective markers of chronic pain severity are needed when examining and treating patients with whose suffering may be overstated or underestimated. This study tested a hypothesis that the strength cardiovascular (CV) reactivity in response to social evaluative threat orthostatic challenge is reliable index pain-related complaints.Measurement CV styles 34 men 16 women from different bodily injuries, were retrieved larger database patients. Measurement postural was repeated twice (sessions 1...

It was recently shown that cognitive functions requiring more widespread brain integration relate to slower EEG activity, whereas performance supported by local is associated with faster components (Von ). Associations were studied between on WAIS and resting spectral parameters in heroin abusers normal young males. The most prominent associations variables consistently registered polar lateral frontal/temporal derivations. subtests predominantly loading retrieval from long-term memory...

Abstract A major challenge presently is not only to identify the genetic polymorphisms increasing risk diseases, but also find out factors and mechanisms, which can counteract a genotype by developing resilient phenotype. The objective of this study was examine acquired innate vagal mechanisms that protect against physical challenges haemorrhages in 19 athletes 61 non-athletes. These include examining change heart rate variability (HF-HRV; an indicator vagus activity) response orthostatic...