From psychological moments to mortality: A multidisciplinary synthesis on heart rate variability spanning the continuum of time

•HRV is a psychophysiological marker of vagal function.•Everyday psychological moments both affect and are affected by the vagus.•The vagus plays a critical regulatory role over tightly integrated allostatic systems.•Changes in vagal function may provide an initial ‘spark’ that initiates a cascade o...

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Veröffentlicht in:Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews Jg. 83; S. 547 - 567
Hauptverfasser: Kemp, Andrew H., Koenig, Julian, Thayer, Julian F.
Format: Journal Article
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: United States Elsevier Ltd 01.12.2017
Schlagworte:
Atherosclerosis
Autonomic nervous system
Biomarkers
Emotion
Epidemiology
Health psychology
Heart rate variability
Inflammation
Mental health
Mood
Morbidity
Mortality
Neurovisceral integration model
Physical health
Polyvagal theory
Psychiatry
Psychophysiological flexibility
Psychophysiology
Public health
Resilience
Neurovisceral integration model
Mortality
Physical health
Mental health
Health psychology
Inflammation
Epidemiology
Psychophysiological flexibility
Morbidity
Resilience
Mood
Autonomic nervous system
Atherosclerosis
Polyvagal theory
Biomarkers
Emotion
Psychiatry
Heart rate variability
Public health
Psychophysiology
ISSN:0149-7634, 1873-7528, 1873-7528
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Zusammenfassung:•HRV is a psychophysiological marker of vagal function.•Everyday psychological moments both affect and are affected by the vagus.•The vagus plays a critical regulatory role over tightly integrated allostatic systems.•Changes in vagal function may provide an initial ‘spark’ that initiates a cascade of downstream effects.•In this way, the vagus may provide a structural link connecting moments to mortality. Heart rate variability (HRV) indexes functioning of the vagus nerve, arguably the most important nerve in the human body. The Neurovisceral Integration Model has provided a structural framework for understanding brain-body integration, highlighting the role of the vagus in adaptation to the environment. In the present paper, we emphasise a temporal framework in which HRV may be considered a missing, structural link between psychological moments and mortality, a proposal we label as Neurovisceral Integration Across a Continuum of Time (or NIACT). This new framework places neurovisceral integration on a dimension of time, highlighting implications for lifespan development and healthy aging, and helping to bridge the gap between clearly demarcated disciplines such as psychology and epidemiology. The NIACT provides a novel framework, which conceptualizes how everyday psychological moments both affect and are affected by the vagus in ways that have long-term effects on mortality risk. We further emphasize that a longitudinal approach to understanding change in vagal function over time may yield novel scientific insights and important public health outcomes.
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ISSN:0149-7634
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DOI:10.1016/j.neubiorev.2017.09.006