AMPLITUDE OF HEART RATE MODULATION WITH THE PERIOD OF\ud 3 CARDIOCYCLES DEPENDS ON THE PHYSIOLOGICAL AROUSAL OF THE BRAIN

Amplitude of the 3-cardiocycle modulation of heart rate in records of 300 cardiointervals depends of the physiological arousal of brain. As arousal is a physiological component of stress, the amplitude of this heart rate modulation may be used as a diagnostic parameter on the arousal in stress related studies.\u

MENTAL STATUS AND HEART RATE VARIABILITY

The results let us suppose that there are at least three periodical phenomena of HRV in frequency range related with mental status. Two of them have not been discovered and physiologically explained yet. The most powerful of these phenomena relates to mental status. It has frequencies from 0.25 to 0.5 1/beat and peak 0.35 1/beat. Despite of difference of the peak frequencies the waves of factor loadings are overlapped. Therefore, regression models would be more fit for useful evaluation of mental status, rather then power of spectral density within any frequency range