Child Maltreatment and Autonomic Nervous System Reactivity

Child maltreatment and autonomic nervous system reactivity: identifying dysregulated stress reactivity patterns by using the biopsychosocial model of challenge and threat.

OBJECTIVE Disruptions in stress response system development have been posited as mechanisms linking child maltreatment (CM) to psychopathology. Existing theories predict elevated sympathetic nervous system reactivity after CM, but evidence for this is inconsistent. We present a novel framework for conceptualizing stress reactivity after CM that uses the biopsychosocial model of challenge and th...

Fight, flight, or fall: Autonomic nervous system reactivity during skydiving

Sensation seeking (SS) traits may drive individuals toward high-intensity environments because of a desire for novelty and risk; however, research has not identified the psychophysiological mechanisms underlying SS behavioral expression or disentangled the relative contribution of novelty-seeking for physiological arousal. We used an ambulatory device to measure autonomic nervous system (ANS) a...

Altered autonomic nervous system reactivity to pain in trigeminal neuralgia.

BACKGROUND In the past two decades, there has been increasing evidence to suggest that trigeminal neuralgia (TN) may be linked to a dysfunction of the autonomic nervous system (ANS). The aim of the present study was to formally test this hypothesis by comparing the reactivity of the ANS to experimental pain in a population of TN patients and healthy controls. METHODS Twelve patients diagnosed...

Autonomic Nervous System

Autonomic Nervous System Testing

A utonomic nervous system testing is used to document diabetic autonomic failure. Diabetic autonomic failure is defined as impaired function of the peripheral autonomic nervous system and can be divided into two categories: 1) autonomic neuropathy, in which there is a structural lesion of the peripheral autonomic neuron and 2) functional autonomic failure, in which no known structural lesion oc...