Sentences with phrase «autonomic patterning»

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Influence of swaddling experience on spontaneous arousal patterns and autonomic control in sleeping infants

In animal models, exposure to cigarette smoke or nicotine during fetal development alters the expression of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor in areas of the brainstem important for autonomic function, 28 alters the neuronal excitability of neurons in the nucleus tractus solitarius (a brainstem region important for sensory integration), 29 and alters fetal autonomic activity and medullary neurotransmitter receptors.30 In human infants, there are strong associations between nicotinic acetylcholine receptor and serotonin receptors in the brainstem during development.31 Prenatal exposure to tobacco smoke attenuates recovery from hypoxia in preterm infants, 32 decreases heart rate variability in preterm33 and term34 infants, and abolishes the normal relationship between heart rate and gestational age at birth.33 Moreover, infants of smoking mothers exhibit impaired arousal patterns to trigeminal stimulation in proportion to urinary cotinine levels.35 It is important to note also that prenatal exposure to tobacco smoke alters the normal programming of cardiovascular reflexes such that there is a greater - than - expected increase in blood pressure and heart rate in response to breathing 4 % carbon dioxide or a 60 ° head - up tilt.36 These changes in autonomic function, arousal, and cardiovascular reflexes might all increase an infant's vulnerability to SIDS.

An HRV pattern with little variation and erratic change is pathological and indicates an imbalance of the autonomic nervous system, favoring stress and high cortisol levels.

Some psychophysiological assessments (galvanic skin response, heart rate, breathing, pupil dilation, stress cortisol) can identify anxiety - related patterns of autonomic arousal, but a clinical diagnosis still requires diagnostic interview to assess symptom onset, duration, severity and associated impairment.

This workshop combines lecture, video, and experiential exercises to explore a neurobiologically - informed understanding of the impact of trauma on attachment behavior, somatic interventions for challenging trauma - related relational patterns, and how to use ourselves as «neurobiological regulators» of the client's dysregulated emotional and autonomic states.

We will look at implementing interventions that challenge trauma - related patterns in relationships and methods for helping regulate our clients» dysregulated autonomic and emotional states.

Compared with those scoring low on narcissism, those high on narcissism, who were the least physiologically reactive group, evinced greater proactive aggression, whereas those showing a pattern of coactivation (i.e., sympathetic and parasympathetic autonomic reactivity) evinced greater reactive aggression.