Linchpin to the entire area of psychophysiological research and discussion of the vagus is
the respiratory and cardiovascular phenomenon known as respiratory sinus arrhythmia …

Long COVID is characterized by persistent signs and symptoms that continue or develop for
more than 4 weeks after acute COVID-19 infection. Patients with Long COVID experience a …

Despite advances in the treatment of heart failure, prognosis is poor, mortality high and there
remains no cure. Heart failure is associated with reduced cardiac pump function, autonomic …

Much of biology is rhythmical and comprises oscillators that can couple. These have
optimized energy efficiency and have been preserved during evolution. The respiratory and …

BACKGROUND: The phrase complete vagal withdrawal is often used when discussing
autonomic control of the heart during exercise. However, more recent studies have …

Stress is an important risk factor for modern chronic diseases, with distinct influences in
males and females. The sex specificity of the mammalian stress response contributes to the …

Microneurographic recordings of the human cervical vagus nerve have revealed the
presence of multi‐unit neural activity with measurable cardiac rhythmicity. This suggests that …

In our original white paper published in the The Journal of Physiology in 2016, we set out
our knowledge of the structural and functional organization of cardiac autonomic control …

Cardiovascular imaging studies provide a multitude of structural and functional data to better
understand disease mechanisms. While pooling data across studies enables more powerful …

The baroreflex is a multi‐input, multi‐output physiological control system that regulates
blood pressure by modulating nerve activity between the brainstem and the heart. Existing …