Matter Over Mind: A Randomised-Controlled Trial of Single-Session Biofeedback Training on Performance Anxiety and Heart Rate Variability in Musicians

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Wells, Ruth ^a   Outhred, Tim ^a   Heathers, James A J ^a   Quintana, Daniel S ^a   Kemp, Andrew H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANTICIPATION; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EFFECT SIZE; FEMALE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MUSICIAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PERFORMANCE ANXIETY; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RESPIRATION CONTROL; SELF REPORT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BIOFEEDBACK, PSYCHOLOGY; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MUSIC; PERFORMANCE ANXIETY;

EID: 84867132839     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0046597     Document Type: Article

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