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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Vydáno v:Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews Ročník 83; s. 547 - 567
Hlavní autoři: Kemp, Andrew H., Koenig, Julian, Thayer, Julian F.
Médium: Journal Article
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: United States Elsevier Ltd 01.12.2017
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ISSN:0149-7634, 1873-7528, 1873-7528
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Shrnutí:•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