Coupling between prefrontal brain activity and respiratory sinus arrhythmia in infants and adults.

ABSTRACT: Self-regulation is an essential aspect of healthy child development. Even though infants depend on their caregivers for co-regulation during the first years, they begin to gain regulatory abilities through social interactions as well as their own developing agency and inhibitory control. These early regulatory abilities continue to increase with the development of both the prefrontal cortex and the vagal system. Importantly, theoretical accounts have suggested that the prefrontal cortex and the vagal system are linked through forward and backward feedback loops via the limbic system. Decreased coupling within this link is suggested to be associated with psychopathology. The primary goal of this study was to examine whether intrapersonal coupling of prefrontal brain activity and respiratory

SUBMITTER: Nguyen T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9730144 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature