Startle habituation is a type of implicit and automatic emotion regulation. Diminished startle habituation is linked to several psychiatric or neurological disorders. Most previous studies quantified ...

In the present article, we review cardiovascular responses to parasympathetic activation, address the modulating factors that can affect parasympathetic function, discuss the role of the vagus nerve ...

1 University Hospital Düsseldorf, Medical Faculty of Heinrich Heine University, Department of Rheumatology, Duesseldorf, Germany 2 University Hospital Düsseldorf, Medical Faculty of Heinrich Heine ...

If you often arrive at work stressed and unrested on a Monday morning, it might be time to reconsider how you spend your weekends. Here, a physiologist and a neuroscientist explain the importance of ...