Mental stress and cardiovascular health—part I

F Vancheri, G Longo, E Vancheri… - Journal of clinical medicine, 2022 - mdpi.com
Epidemiological studies have shown that a substantial proportion of acute coronary events
occur in individuals who lack the traditional high-risk cardiovascular (CV) profile. Mental …

Debates on the dorsomedial prefrontal/dorsal anterior cingulate cortex: insights for future research

N Clairis, A Lopez-Persem - Brain, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The dorsomedial prefrontal cortex/dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dmPFC/dACC) is a brain
area subject to many theories and debates over its function (s). Even its precise anatomical …

Cardiac sympathetic-vagal activity initiates a functional brain–body response to emotional arousal

D Candia-Rivera, V Catrambone… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
A century-long debate on bodily states and emotions persists. While the involvement of
bodily activity in emotion physiology is widely recognized, the specificity and causal role of …

[HTML][HTML] Brain-heart interactions in the neurobiology of consciousness

D Candia-Rivera - Current Research in Neurobiology, 2022 - Elsevier
Recent experimental evidence on patients with disorders of consciousness revealed that
observing brain-heart interactions helps to detect residual consciousness, even in patients …

The effects of noninvasive brain stimulation on heart rate and heart rate variability: A systematic review and meta‐analysis

M Schmaußer, S Hoffmann, M Raab… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Noninvasive brain stimulation (NIBS) techniques such as transcranial magnetic stimulation
and transcranial direct current stimulation are widely used to test the involvement of specific …

[HTML][HTML] The role of electroencephalography electrical reference in the assessment of functional brain–heart interplay: From methodology to user guidelines

D Candia-Rivera, V Catrambone, G Valenza - Journal of Neuroscience …, 2021 - Elsevier
Background The choice of EEG reference has been widely studied. However, the choice of
the most appropriate re-referencing for EEG data is still debated. Moreover, the role of EEG …

Allostasis as a core feature of hierarchical gradients in the human brain

Y Katsumi, JE Theriault, KS Quigley… - Network Neuroscience, 2022 - direct.mit.edu
This paper integrates emerging evidence from two broad streams of scientific literature into
one common framework:(a) hierarchical gradients of functional connectivity that reflect the …

The central autonomic system revisited–convergent evidence for a regulatory role of the insular and midcingulate cortex from neuroimaging meta-analyses

S Ferraro, B Klugah-Brown, CR Tench… - Neuroscience & …, 2022 - Elsevier
The autonomic nervous system regulates dynamic body adaptations to internal and external
environment changes. Capitalizing on two different algorithms (that differ in empirical …

[HTML][HTML] Functional assessment of bidirectional cortical and peripheral neural control on heartbeat dynamics: A brain-heart study on thermal stress

D Candia-Rivera, V Catrambone, R Barbieri… - NeuroImage, 2022 - Elsevier
The study of functional Brain-Heart Interplay (BHI) from non-invasive recordings has gained
much interest in recent years. Previous endeavors aimed at understanding how the two …

Dapagliflozin activates neurons in the central nervous system and regulates cardiovascular activity by inhibiting SGLT-2 in mice

T Nguyen, S Wen, M Gong, X Yuan, D Xu… - Diabetes, Metabolic …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Purpose This study investigates the possible effect and central mechanism of novel
antidiabetic medication sodium glucose transporter-2 (SGLT-2i) on the cardiovascular …