Psychophysiological States
The Ultradian Dynamics of Mind-Body Interactions

A review of the effects of neural rhythms on the autonomic and central nervous systems

David S. Shannahoff-Khalsa (Author)

9780123742759, Elsevier Science

Hardback, published 27 December 2007

286 pages, Illustrated
22.9 x 15.1 x 2.2 cm, 0.63 kg

"This text presents a detailed and highly technical analysis of various ways that physiology overlaps with psychology." --European Association for Body Psychotherapy Newsletter

Our understanding of psychophysiological states are now more broadly defined by the inclusion of the lateralized ultradian rhythms of the autonomic and central nervous systems (ANS and CNS) that play a key regulatory role in mind-body states. These neural rhythms are a unique step in the evolution of the nervous system that have mostly been ignored or missed in our understanding of physiology, mental activities, brain rhythms, and in the treatment of psychiatric disorders. The multivariate physiological experiments reviewed in this book provide a new “big picture? for how the body’s major systems (ANS, CNS, neuroendocrine, cardiovascular, fuel-regulatory, gastrointestinal, immune) are regulated, integrated, and coordinated by the ANS via the hypothalamus during both waking and sleep. This discovery has implications for psychiatrists, psychologists, stress physiologists, cardiologists, sleep researchers, neuroscientists, neuroendocrinologists, cognitive scientists, and those interested in performance, anxiety, depression, schizophrenia, autism, and addictive and impulse control disorders. This book includes the translational neuroscience aspect of this discovery, including implications for vagal nerve stimulation studies.

Introduction - An Historical Perspective on Psychophysiological StatesI. Towards an Integration of the Temporal and Structural Organization of HigherVertebrates: Lateralized Ultradian Rhythms of the Nervous SystemI.A. Lateralized Rhythms of the Autonomic Nervous SystemI.B. Lateralized Rhythms of the Central Nervous SystemI.B.I. Ultradian Studies of Lateralized EEG During SleepI.B.2. Ultradian Studies of Lateralized EEG During WakingI.B.3. Ultradian Studies of Lateralized Cognitive Performance EfficiencyI.B.4. Studies of Lateralized Cognitive Performance After Awakening fromREM and NREM Sleep StagesI.C. Ultradian Rhythms of the Cardiovascular, Neuroendocrine, Fuel-Regulatory,Gastrointestinal, and Immune SystemsI.D. Hypothalamic Regulation and Integration of the ANS-CNS Rhythm and theBasic Rest Activity CycleI.E. Ultradian Rhythms in Arousal, Performance, and BehaviorII. A Neural Matrix for Coupling Mind and MetabolismIII. A Pendulum of ANS-CNS Activities and Homeostasis: A New Paradigm forStress and DiseaseIV. Implications of Lateralized Rhythms for Adaptation and HomeostasisV. Implications of Lateralized Rhythms for PsychopathologyA. AnxietyB. DepressionC. SchizophreniaVI. Translational Elements of Psychophysiological States: Regulation ofLateralized Autonomic and Central Nervous System Activities VI.A. Vagal Nerve Stimulation VI.A.1. Cognitive AbilitiesVI.B.2. Autonomic Physiology VI.B. Unilateral Forced Nostril Breathing VI.A.1. Cognitive AbilitiesVI.B.2. Autonomic Physiology VII. ConclusionVIII. References

Subject Areas: Neurology & clinical neurophysiology [MJN], Physiological & neuro-psychology, biopsychology [JMM]