Autonomic Nervous System Activity During a Speech Task

Measuring autonomic nervous system activity

Autonomic nervous system activity distinguishes among emotions.

Emotion-specific activity in the autonomic nervous system was generated by constructing facial prototypes of emotion muscle by muscle and by reliving past emotional experiences. The autonomic activity produced distinguished not only between positive and negative emotions, but also among negative emotions. This finding challenges emotion theories that have proposed autonomic activity to be undif...

Autonomic nervous system activity in emotion: a review.

Autonomic nervous system (ANS) activity is viewed as a major component of the emotion response in many recent theories of emotion. Positions on the degree of specificity of ANS activation in emotion, however, greatly diverge, ranging from undifferentiated arousal, over acknowledgment of strong response idiosyncrasies, to highly specific predictions of autonomic response patterns for certain emo...

Autonomic nervous system changes during Reiki treatment: a preliminary study.

OBJECTIVES to investigate if a complementary therapy, Reiki, has any effect on indices of autonomic nervous system function. DESIGN Blind trial. SETTING/LOCATION Quiet room in an out-patient clinic. SUBJECTS Forty-five (45) subjects assigned at random into three groups. INTERVENTIONS Three treatment conditions: no treatment (rest only); Reiki treatment by experienced Reiki practitioner;...

Autonomic nervous system interaction with the cardiovascular system during exercise.

There is considerable recent evidence that parameters thought to reflect the complex interaction between the autonomic nervous system and the cardiovascular system during exercise testing can provide significant prognostic information. Specific variables of great importance include heart rate (HR) response to exercise (reserve), HR recovery after exercise, and multiple components of HR variabil...