Higher resting cardiovagal activity predicts larger decrease of depressive symptoms in inpatients treated for stress-related depression.
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental disorders, with treatment outcomes generally being unsatisfactory. The identification of outcome predictors could contribute to improving diagnosis, treatment, and outcome. Heart rate variability (HRV), an index of cardiovagal activity, has been proposed as a potential correlate of depression as well as a predictor of treatment effectiveness. The aim of the present study was to examine if HRV at baseline could predict the outcome of inpatient treatment for stress-related depressive disorder (SRDD). Depressive symptoms of n = 57 inpatients with an SRDD, who were treated in a sp...
Source: Journal of Psychophysiology - May 19, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Electrophysiological evidence of enhanced auditory retrieval in musically trained children.
Journal of Psychophysiology, Vol 36(4), 2022, 241-253; doi:10.1027/0269-8803/a000298Musical practice enhances auditory processing in children as related to pitch perception or tonal discrimination. The purpose of this study was to examine whether these benefits also occur in auditory working memory by influencing its neural substrates. Two groups of children aged between 7 and 11 years old were compared using an auditory retrieval task with three conditions: frequency retrieval, duration retrieval, and control. Musician children had weekly private violin or cello lessons for at least 14 months, whereas non-musician childre...
Source: Journal of Psychophysiology - March 10, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Physiological responses to narrative anger recall and correlates to anger, forgiveness, and rumination.
Journal of Psychophysiology, Vol 36(4), 2022, 231-240; doi:10.1027/0269-8803/a000297Narrative recall, or describing an event from one’s past, is a common method to study anger in the laboratory. However, most research using this method has not included a neutral speaking control, and therefore the physiological response attributable to emotion versus the act of speech is unknown. We evaluated heart rate, blood pressure, skin conductance level, heart rate variability, and salivary alpha-amylase during silent baseline, neutral speaking, anger recall, and recovery periods, and correlated these measures with trait anger, for...
Source: Journal of Psychophysiology - March 10, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Functional significance of individual differences in P3 network spatial configuration.
Journal of Psychophysiology, Vol 36(4), 2022, 215-230; doi:10.1027/0269-8803/a000295The amplitude and latency of the P3 component in the electroencephalogram (EEG) event-related potentials (ERPs) are among the most extensively used markers for individual differences in normal and abnormal brain functions. In contrast, individual variations in spatial topography of the temporally-defined P3 component are relatively under-explored. Development in EEG-based source imaging opened up the possibility that individual-specific spatial configuration of the neural network underlying the temporally-defined P3 component bear a novel s...
Source: Journal of Psychophysiology - March 10, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Electrophysiological evidence of enhanced auditory retrieval in musically trained children.
Journal of Psychophysiology, Vol 36(4), 2022, 241-253; doi:10.1027/0269-8803/a000298Musical practice enhances auditory processing in children as related to pitch perception or tonal discrimination. The purpose of this study was to examine whether these benefits also occur in auditory working memory by influencing its neural substrates. Two groups of children aged between 7 and 11 years old were compared using an auditory retrieval task with three conditions: frequency retrieval, duration retrieval, and control. Musician children had weekly private violin or cello lessons for at least 14 months, whereas non-musician childre...
Source: Journal of Psychophysiology - March 10, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Physiological responses to narrative anger recall and correlates to anger, forgiveness, and rumination.
Journal of Psychophysiology, Vol 36(4), 2022, 231-240; doi:10.1027/0269-8803/a000297Narrative recall, or describing an event from one’s past, is a common method to study anger in the laboratory. However, most research using this method has not included a neutral speaking control, and therefore the physiological response attributable to emotion versus the act of speech is unknown. We evaluated heart rate, blood pressure, skin conductance level, heart rate variability, and salivary alpha-amylase during silent baseline, neutral speaking, anger recall, and recovery periods, and correlated these measures with trait anger, for...
Source: Journal of Psychophysiology - March 10, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Functional significance of individual differences in P3 network spatial configuration.
Journal of Psychophysiology, Vol 36(4), 2022, 215-230; doi:10.1027/0269-8803/a000295The amplitude and latency of the P3 component in the electroencephalogram (EEG) event-related potentials (ERPs) are among the most extensively used markers for individual differences in normal and abnormal brain functions. In contrast, individual variations in spatial topography of the temporally-defined P3 component are relatively under-explored. Development in EEG-based source imaging opened up the possibility that individual-specific spatial configuration of the neural network underlying the temporally-defined P3 component bear a novel s...
Source: Journal of Psychophysiology - March 10, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Electrophysiological evidence of enhanced auditory retrieval in musically trained children.
Musical practice enhances auditory processing in children as related to pitch perception or tonal discrimination. The purpose of this study was to examine whether these benefits also occur in auditory working memory by influencing its neural substrates. Two groups of children aged between 7 and 11 years old were compared using an auditory retrieval task with three conditions: frequency retrieval, duration retrieval, and control. Musician children had weekly private violin or cello lessons for at least 14 months, whereas non-musician children had no musical training. Results showed that musicians’ scores on the Gordon’s...
Source: Journal of Psychophysiology - March 10, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Physiological responses to narrative anger recall and correlates to anger, forgiveness, and rumination.
Narrative recall, or describing an event from one’s past, is a common method to study anger in the laboratory. However, most research using this method has not included a neutral speaking control, and therefore the physiological response attributable to emotion versus the act of speech is unknown. We evaluated heart rate, blood pressure, skin conductance level, heart rate variability, and salivary alpha-amylase during silent baseline, neutral speaking, anger recall, and recovery periods, and correlated these measures with trait anger, forgiveness, and rumination (n = 104). Only systolic blood pressure and skin conductanc...
Source: Journal of Psychophysiology - March 10, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Functional significance of individual differences in P3 network spatial configuration.
The amplitude and latency of the P3 component in the electroencephalogram (EEG) event-related potentials (ERPs) are among the most extensively used markers for individual differences in normal and abnormal brain functions. In contrast, individual variations in spatial topography of the temporally-defined P3 component are relatively under-explored. Development in EEG-based source imaging opened up the possibility that individual-specific spatial configuration of the neural network underlying the temporally-defined P3 component bear a novel source of information for marking an individual difference in behavioral and cognitiv...
Source: Journal of Psychophysiology - March 10, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
N400 peculiarities during intentional inferences production in subjects with schizotypal traits: Preserved predictions of intentions but altered context integration.
A deficit in context processing may underlie theory of mind (ToM) difficulties in schizophrenia, although few studies to date have explored the impact of contextual processing on ToM performances within the same task. We used electroencephalography to investigate the production of intentional inferences from highly versus weakly structured sentences in healthy participants with schizotypal traits. Thirty-four participants were divided into two groups according to their scores on the Schizotypal Personality Questionnaire (SPQ). The participants listened to stories that required a degree of understanding in order to produce ...
Source: Journal of Psychophysiology - March 10, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Increasing love feelings, marital satisfaction, and motivated attention to the spouse.
This study indicates that looking at spouse pictures increases love and marital satisfaction, which is not due to increased positive emotions unrelated to the spouse. Looking at spouse pictures is an easy strategy that could be used to stabilize marriages in which the main problem is the decline of love feelings over time. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Journal of Psychophysiology)
Source: Journal of Psychophysiology - February 24, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Increasing love feelings, marital satisfaction, and motivated attention to the spouse.
This study indicates that looking at spouse pictures increases love and marital satisfaction, which is not due to increased positive emotions unrelated to the spouse. Looking at spouse pictures is an easy strategy that could be used to stabilize marriages in which the main problem is the decline of love feelings over time. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Journal of Psychophysiology)
Source: Journal of Psychophysiology - February 24, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Under which circumstances does academic workload lead to stress? Explaining intraindividual differences by using the cortisol-awakening response as a moderator.
Academic stress is associated with a wide range of adverse outcomes, including detrimental effects on mental health, achievement, and well-being. Numerous studies have shown an association between the cortisol awakening response (CAR) and various health and risk factors. Some studies revealed a protective function of the CAR as a stress buffer preventing the stress system from overshooting. We investigated the moderating effect of the CAR on the within-subject association between academic workload and academic stress in participants’ daily lives using ambulatory assessment. We assessed 77 undergraduate university partici...
Source: Journal of Psychophysiology - February 24, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
