Can't Get You Out of My Head: Brain-Body Interactions in Perseverative Cognition

• Main Author: Julian F. Thayer (auth)
• Other Authors: Jos F. Brosschot (auth), Cristina Ottaviani (auth), Bart Verkuil (auth), Hugo D. Critchley (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2018
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Neurosciences; functional connectivity; brain-body interaction; perseverative cognition; heart rate variability; generalized anxiety disorder
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Perseverative cognition is defined as the repetitive or sustained activation of cognitive representations of past stressful events or feared events in the future and even at non-clinical levels it causes a "fight-or-flight" action tendency, followed by a cascade of biological events, start...