Healthy adults
Conditions
Interventions
Heart rate variability biofeedback training (Ten training sessions of 20 minutes each will be conducted within 3 weeks)
Paced breathing training (Ten training sessions of 20 minutes each will be condu
Sponsors
Hokkaido University
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: 1. Right-handed healthy people 2. Those who gave a written informed consent based on own their will
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: 1. The trait anxiety score of State-Trait Anxiety Scale-Form JYZ is less than the lower 30 percentile of the standard score 2. History of brain disease, head injury, psychiatric disease, cardiac disease, and respiratory disease 3. Experience of symptoms such as breathlessness and dizziness by slow paced breathing 4. Taking medication that affects the autonomic nervous system 5. Neurological or visual disability that interferes with the performance of tasks
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| EEG at rest, during heart rate variability biofeedback training, and during the behavioral task Heart rate variability at rest Performance on the behavioral task | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| State-Trait Anxiety Scale-Form JYZ | — |
Countries
Japan
Contacts
Public ContactRyuji Saito
Hokkaido University Graduate School of Health Sciences
Outcome results
None listed