Pilot study employing heart rate variability biofeedback training to decrease anxiety in patients with eating disorders
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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 subjectively useful to most participants. An enhanced ability to generate highly coherent HRV patterns i...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Eating Disorders
سال: 2014
ISSN: 2050-2974
DOI: 10.1186/2050-2974-2-17