Heart Rate Variability Biofeedback Based on Slow-Paced Breathing With Immersive Virtual Reality Nature Scenery

Development and Evaluation of Virtual Reality Heart Rate Variability Biofeedback Application

Heart Rate Variability Biofeedback for Major Depression

Heart rate variability for the treatment of major depression is a novel, alternative approach that can offer symptom reduction with minimal-to-no noxious side effects. The following material will illustrate some of the work being conducted at our laboratory to demonstrate the efficacy of heart rate variability. Namely, results will be presented regarding our published work on an initial open-la...

Heart rate variability biofeedback: effects of age on heart rate variability, baroreflex gain, and asthma.

OBJECTIVES To present additional analysis of data from a previously published study showing that biofeedback training to increase heart rate variability (HRV) can be an effective component in asthma treatment. HRV and intervention-related changes in HRV are negatively correlated with age. Here we assess the effects of age on biofeedback effects for asthma. DESIGN Ten sessions of HRV biofeedba...

Heart rate variability (HRV) during virtual reality immersion

The goal of the study was assessment of the hour-long training involving handling virtual environment (sVR) and watching a stereoscopic 3D movie on the mechanisms of autonomic heart rate (HR) regulation among the subjects who were not predisposed to motion sickness. In order to exclude predispositions to motion sickness, all the participants (n=19) underwent a Coriolis test. During an exposure ...

The Promise of Heart Rate Variability Biofeedback: Evidence-Based Applications

Introduction Heart rate variability biofeedback (HRVB) has enjoyed a good deal of popularity in recent years. A number of commercial products have been introduced ranging in price from $80 (MyCalmBeat by Brain Resourcet) to over $200 (Alivee by Somatic Vision, Inc.). The advertising for these products claims efficacy for a large number of disorders and, in fact, we are quite optimistic about th...