Heart rate pattern and resting heart rate variability mediate individual differences in contextual anxiety and conditioned responses

Dieuwke Sevenster; Alfons Hamm; Tom Beckers; Merel Kindt

doi:10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2015.09.004

Heart rate pattern and resting heart rate variability mediate individual differences in contextual anxiety and conditioned responses

Int J Psychophysiol. 2015 Dec;98(3 Pt 2):567-76. doi: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2015.09.004. Epub 2015 Sep 21.

Authors

Dieuwke Sevenster¹, Alfons Hamm², Tom Beckers³, Merel Kindt⁴

Affiliations

¹ Laboratory of Biological Psychology, Department of Psychology, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; Clinical Psychology, Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Amsterdam Brain and Cognition, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Electronic address: dieuwke.sevenster@gmail.com.
² Biological and Clinical Psychology, Department of Psychology, University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany.
³ Clinical Psychology, Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Amsterdam Brain and Cognition, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Centre for the Psychology of Learning and Experimental Psychopathology, Department of Psychology, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
⁴ Clinical Psychology, Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Amsterdam Brain and Cognition, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

PMID: 26393823
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2015.09.004

No abstract available

Keywords: Fear conditioning; Fear potentiated startle; Heart rate; Heart rate variability (HRV); Sex differences; Skin conductance response (SCR); Subjective distress.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Adolescent
Adult
Anxiety / physiopathology*
Conditioning, Psychological / physiology*
Electrocardiography
Fear
Female
Galvanic Skin Response
Heart Rate / physiology*
Humans
Individuality*
Male
Phobic Disorders / physiopathology
Psychiatric Status Rating Scales
Reflex, Startle / physiology*
Rest / physiology*
Surveys and Questionnaires
Young Adult

Supplementary concepts

Phobia, Specific