Pilot study employing heart rate variability biofeedback training to decrease anxiety in patients with eating disorders

Heart rate variability (HRV) biofeedback, a technique which encourages slow meditative breathing, was offered to 25 in-patients with various eating disorder diagnoses-anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and binge eating disorder. We found that this modality had no serious side effects, and was subject...

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Autores principales: Scolnick, Barbara, Mostofsky, David I, Keane, Robert J
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Letter to the Editor
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4050420/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24917934
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2050-2974-2-17
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description Heart rate variability (HRV) biofeedback, a technique which encourages slow meditative breathing, was offered to 25 in-patients with various eating disorder diagnoses-anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and binge eating disorder. We found that this modality had no serious side effects, and was subjectively useful to most participants. An enhanced ability to generate highly coherent HRV patterns in patients with recent onset anorexia nervosa was observed.
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spelling pubmed-40504202014-06-11 Pilot study employing heart rate variability biofeedback training to decrease anxiety in patients with eating disorders Scolnick, Barbara Mostofsky, David I Keane, Robert J J Eat Disord Letter to the Editor Heart rate variability (HRV) biofeedback, a technique which encourages slow meditative breathing, was offered to 25 in-patients with various eating disorder diagnoses-anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and binge eating disorder. We found that this modality had no serious side effects, and was subjectively useful to most participants. An enhanced ability to generate highly coherent HRV patterns in patients with recent onset anorexia nervosa was observed. BioMed Central 2014-06-03 /pmc/articles/PMC4050420/ /pubmed/24917934 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2050-2974-2-17 Text en Copyright © 2014 Scolnick et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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