Heart Rate Variability Biofeedback Treatment for Post-Stroke Depression Patients: A Pilot Study

Treatment for post-stroke depression (PSD) is a very complicated system engineering, and it need quite a long time to see the effect. In this paper, through clinical trials, we adopt the method of heart rate variability biofeedback treatment for PSD patients. Through analysis of clinical trials, we hope to improve the situation of emotion on patients, the autonomic nervous function and reduce the impact by the prognosis of heart rate variability biofeedback, with dynamic observation of indices of variation on heart rate variability biofeedback under pressure/non-pressure, and summary of training scheme for PSD patients. In our research, by activating and enhancing the Baroreceptor Reflex function, it can improve the HRV indices and make mood better. We focused on heart rate variability biofeedback influence on depression and anxiety in clinical trials of its impact and corresponding experimental results is obtained.

[1]  A. Haque,et al.  Depression after stroke-analysis of 297 stroke patients. , 2001, Bangladesh Medical Research Council bulletin.

[2]  J. Hayano,et al.  Accuracy of assessment of cardiac vagal tone by heart rate variability in normal subjects. , 1991, The American journal of cardiology.

[3]  P. Lehrer,et al.  Applied Psychophysiology: Beyond the Boundaries of Biofeedback (Mending a Wall, a Brief History of Our Field, and Applications to Control of the Muscles and Cardiorespiratory Systems) , 2003, Applied psychophysiology and biofeedback.

[4]  Igor Malinovsky,et al.  Preliminary Results of an Open Label Study of Heart Rate Variability Biofeedback for the Treatment of Major Depression , 2007, Applied psychophysiology and biofeedback.

[5]  F. J. Carod-Artal,et al.  Functional recovery and instrumental activities of daily living: follow-up 1-year after treatment in a stroke unit , 2002, Brain injury.

[6]  M. Greenberg,et al.  The Effects of Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia Biofeedback on Heart Rate Variability and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms: A Pilot Study , 2009, Applied psychophysiology and biofeedback.

[7]  J. Hartikainen,et al.  The high frequency component of heart rate variability reflects cardiac parasympathetic modulation rather than parasympathetic 'tone'. , 1995, Acta physiologica Scandinavica.

[8]  Myeong Gi Jeong,et al.  Ultra Short Term Analysis of Heart Rate Variability for Monitoring Mental Stress in Mobile Settings , 2007, 2007 29th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society.

[9]  J. Miller,et al.  Decreased heart rate variability and its association with increased mortality after acute myocardial infarction. , 1987, The American journal of cardiology.

[10]  Yang Ming-min.  Relationship among Depression, Anxiety and Possible Factors in Post-stroke Patients: 510 Cases Report , 2006 .

[11]  P. Picton,et al.  Heart rate variability biofeedback as a behavioral neurocardiac intervention to enhance vagal heart rate control. , 2005, American heart journal.

[12]  Yoshio Nakamura,et al.  Heart rate variability, trait anxiety, and perceived stress among physically fit men and women. , 2000, International journal of psychophysiology : official journal of the International Organization of Psychophysiology.

[13]  Li Rong-mei.  Analysis of Post-stroke Anxiety Disorders and the Related Factors , 2004 .

[14]  J. Gorman,et al.  Temporal stability of heart period variability during a resting baseline and in response to psychological challenge. , 1995, Psychophysiology.

[15]  J. Gorman,et al.  Enhanced stress reactivity in paediatric anxiety disorders: implications for future cardiovascular health. , 2001, The international journal of neuropsychopharmacology.

[16]  F. J. Carod-Artal,et al.  [Post stroke depression: predictive factors at one year follow up]. , 2002, Revista de neurologia.

[17]  David W. Watson,et al.  Physiological correlates of heart rate variability (HRV) and the subjective assessment of workload and fatigue in-flight crew: a practical study , 2001 .