Different association patterns of emotion regulation and heart rate variability in older and younger adults.

ABSTRACT: Several mental health conditions seen in older people are associated with impaired emotion regulation. Heart rate variability (HRV) may be an index of emotion regulation capacity, but it is unclear whether and how aging influences this association. Early neurodegenerative processes, such as Alzheimer's disease-related reduction of locus coeruleus (LC) integrity, may play a role, as LC modulates both HRV and self-regulatory networks. We pre-registered a cross-sectional study to investigate the relationship between measures of emotion regulation, HRV and LC structural MRI integrity in a lifespan sample of cognitively normal healthy adults (n = 678, aged 18-88 years, 51% female), recruited between 2010 and 2012 as part of the Cambridge Centre for Ageing and Neuroscience (Cam-CAN) cohor

SUBMITTER: Liu KY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12569767 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature