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Focusing neurovisceral integration: Cognition, heart rate variability, and cerebral blood flow

Year: 2014

Type: article

Abstract: The neurovisceral integration hypothesis suggests in part that cerebral control of autonomic function conveys comparable control of executive function and, hence, correlation among vagally determined high frequency heart rate variability (HF-HRV), executive function, and regional cerebral blood flow (CBF). In 440 middle-aged men and women, resting HF-HRV was related to regional CBF derived from a resting arterial spin-labeled MRI scan and to seven neuropsychological tests of executive function. Despite some intercorrelations, regression modeling failed to support integrated central control of HF-HRV and executive function. Integration between autonomic and cognitive control appears more circumscribed than the general integration suggested by the neurovisceral integration hypothesis.

Source: Psychophysiology

DOI: 10.1111/psyp.12319

Authors: J. Richard Jennings, Ben Allen, Peter J. Gianaros, Julian F. Thayer, Stephen B. Manuck

Institutions: University of Pittsburgh, The Ohio State University

Language: English

Topic: Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control

Subfield: Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: green

Funders: National Institutes of Health, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute