Cardiac vagal recovery following acute psychological stress in human adults: A scoping review
Roddick CM, Seo YS, Barkovich SL, Forrester L, Chen FS
Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2025
What the research tells us
Maps cardiac vagal recovery after acute psychological stress and documents variation in recovery definitions, observation windows and reporting of conditions such as posture. Resting HRV and post-challenge recovery are distinct measurements.
Scope & interpretation
A map of heterogeneous methods does not validate one universal HRV recovery score. Study counts can overlap with other reviews.
Study at a glance
- POPULATION & SAMPLE
- 291 articles, 294 studies, 23,533 adults across 33 countries; 56.1% female.
- EXPOSURE / INTERVENTION / SUBJECT
- Acute psychological stress followed by vagally mediated HRV assessment.
- OUTCOMES
- Definitions and measurement of cardiac vagal recovery.
- TIME FRAME
- Recovery windows varied, including five and 30 minutes; review published in 2025.
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Founded and supported by Resilio.
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