Biofeedback-based training for stress management in daily hassles: An intervention study

Brain and Behavior

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 566-579

  Kotozaki, Yuka ^a   Takeuchi, Hikaru ^a   Sekiguchi, Atsushi ^a   Yamamoto, Yuki ^a   Shinada, Takamitsu ^a   Araki, Tsuyoshi ^a   Takahashi, Kei ^a   Taki, Yasuyuki ^a   Ogino, Takeshi ^b   Kiguchi, Masashi ^b   Kawashima, Ryuta ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HITACHI LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

Biofeedback training; Daily hassles; Hippocampus; Orbitofrontal cortex; Subgenual anterior cingulate cortex

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE;

ADULT; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GRAY MATTER; HEART RATE; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SALIVA ANALYSIS; SCORING SYSTEM; STRESS MANAGEMENT; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; AFFECT; BRAIN CIRCULATION; FEMALE; INTERVENTION STUDY; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; THERAPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AFFECT; BIOFEEDBACK, PSYCHOLOGY; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; INTERVENTION STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84904381333     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21623279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/brb3.241     Document Type: Article

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