In this study, again, we see blunted autonomic response to stress invoking activity in youngsters with social anxiety compared to healthy controls. Their tonic sympathetic activity is higher, and their parasympathetic lower than in healthy controls. Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry.
In this study, they find that subjects most likely to respond show a decrease in their HF (parasympathetic activity) during exposure to the stressor, that then goes back to baseline. The subjects less likely to respond show a more rigid
In digging in deeper to patients responsiveness to treatment and physiological profiles, it is starting to get less intuitive. For example, this study shows that baseline increase in heart rate in patients with claustrophobia correlates with likelihood to respond to
Okay. In this study, they show that eating disorder women show not only blunted HPAA activity, but INCREASED parasympathetic activity. I think I’ve chosen a very poor topic to devote my research to. Too many variables!! J Psychosom Res. 2015
In case anyone is wondering why I’m linking to all of these studies that are unrelated to acupuncture, it’s because the direction I’m trying to go in my work is a means to make sense of the different HRV responses
Another study looking at reactivity, or response instead of steady state measures to stratify clinical response. The relaxation response I first noticed with acupuncture may be getting at this same type of phenomenon. Unfortunately, in their study, they don’t report
There is intense focus on metabolic syndrome and obesity in the last decade or two. This study is trying to get at categorizing the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal-leptin responses in obese women vis a vis their fat and lean body mass and their
