caa a22 4500 606203753 CHVBK 20210128100959.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10484-015-9286-9 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10484-015-9286-9 Heart Rate Variability: A Risk Factor for Female Sexual Dysfunction [Elektronische Daten] [Amelia Stanton, Tierney Lorenz, Carey Pulverman, Cindy Meston] Heart rate variability (HRV) is a measure of autonomic nervous system activity, which reflects an individual's ability to adapt to physiological and environmental changes. Low resting HRV has been linked to several mental health conditions, including depression, anxiety, and alcohol dependence (Kemp et al. in Biological Psychiatry 67(11):1067-1074, 2010. doi:10.1016/j.biopsych.2009.12.012; Kemp et al. in PloS One, 7(2):e30777, 2012; Quintana et al. in Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 132(1-2):395-398, 2013. doi:10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2013.02.025). HRV has also been used as a method for indexing the relative balance of sympathetic nervous system (SNS) activity to parasympathetic nervous system activity. This balance—in particular, moderately dominant SNS activity—has been shown to play a significant role in women's genital sexual arousal in the laboratory; however, the role of SNS activity in clinically relevant sexual arousal function is unknown. The present study assessed the feasibility of using HRV as an index of women's self-reported sexual arousal function outside the laboratory. Sexual arousal function, overall sexual function, and resting HRV were assessed in 72 women, aged 18-39. Women with below average HRV were significantly more likely to report sexual arousal dysfunction (p<.001) and overall sexual dysfunction (p<.001) than both women with average HRV and women with above average HRV. In conclusion, low HRV may be a risk factor for female sexual arousal dysfunction and overall sexual dysfunction. Springer Science+Business Media New York, 2015 Heart rate variability nationallicence Sympathetic nervous system nationallicence Female sexual dysfunction nationallicence Female sexual arousal nationallicence Stanton Amelia Department of Psychology, The University of Texas at Austin, 108 E. Dean Keeton Stop A8000, 78712, Austin, TX, USA aut Lorenz Tierney The Kinsey Institute for Research on Sex, Gender, and Reproduction, The Center for Integrative Study for Animal Behavior, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA aut Pulverman Carey Department of Psychology, The University of Texas at Austin, 108 E. Dean Keeton Stop A8000, 78712, Austin, TX, USA aut Meston Cindy Department of Psychology, The University of Texas at Austin, 108 E. Dean Keeton Stop A8000, 78712, Austin, TX, USA aut Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 40/3(2015-09-01), 229-237 1090-0586 40:3<229 2015 40 10484 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10484-015-9286-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10484-015-9286-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Stanton Amelia Department of Psychology, The University of Texas at Austin, 108 E. Dean Keeton Stop A8000, 78712, Austin, TX, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Lorenz Tierney The Kinsey Institute for Research on Sex, Gender, and Reproduction, The Center for Integrative Study for Animal Behavior, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Pulverman Carey Department of Psychology, The University of Texas at Austin, 108 E. Dean Keeton Stop A8000, 78712, Austin, TX, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Meston Cindy Department of Psychology, The University of Texas at Austin, 108 E. Dean Keeton Stop A8000, 78712, Austin, TX, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 40/3(2015-09-01), 229-237 1090-0586 40:3<229 2015 40 10484