Heart rate variability: Can it serve as a marker of mental health resilience? Special Section on 'Translational and Neuroscience Studies in Affective Disorders' Section Editor, Maria Nobile MD, PhD

摘要

Background: Stress resilience influences mental well-being and vulnerability to psychiatric disorders. Usually, measurement of resilience is based on subjective reports, susceptible to biases. It justifies the need for objective biological/physiological biomarkers of resilience. One promising candidate as biomarker of mental health resilience (MHR) is heart rate variability (HRV). The evidence for its use was reviewed in this study.