TAP reading note: A meta-analysis of heart rate variability and neuroimaging studies: implications for heart rate variability as a marker of stress and health
This coordinate meta-analysis links HRV with activity in regions including the anterior cingulate, extended amygdala and ventral striatum, informing the neurovisceral-integration account. Findings differed between emotional and cognitive/motor tasks, indicating that neural associations depend on context.
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What the study found
This coordinate meta-analysis links HRV with activity in regions including the anterior cingulate, extended amygdala and ventral striatum, informing the neurovisceral-integration account. Findings differed between emotional and cognitive/motor tasks, indicating that neural associations depend on context.
Scope & limitations
8 PET/fMRI studies, 191 participants and 10 contrasts.
The authors describe an illustrative rather than exhaustive selection. Studies were small and heterogeneous, with HRV recorded both inside and outside scanners. Spatial convergence and correlation do not establish a specific top-down causal mechanism or diagnose psychological traits.
Population & sample
8 PET/fMRI studies, 191 participants and 10 contrasts.
Exposure or intervention
Multilevel kernel-density coordinate analysis with sample-size weighting and whole-brain multiple-comparison control.
Outcomes
Spatial associations between HRV and regional brain activity, including task differences.
Time frame
Study-specific scan and task periods; no common clinical follow-up.
Research funding
Not yet verified against the full text.
Research conflicts of interest
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Reading scope
Original full-text methods, Tables 1/2 and neurovisceral-integration discussion. The eight original reports and coordinate dependencies have not been individually rechecked.
References
Publication record
TAP-RDN-0053 · v1.0 · English
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