High frequency heart-rate variability predicts adolescent depressive symptoms, particularly anhedonia, across one year

JOURNAL OF AFFECTIVE DISORDERS

卷:196

Article

Vazquez, Lauren¹  Blood, Julia D.²  Wu, Jia^1,6  Chaplin, Tara M.³  Hommer, Rebecca E.⁴  Rutherford, Helena J. V.^1,6  Potenza, Marc N.^1,7,8,9,10  Mayes, Linda C.^1,6  Crowley, Michael J.^1,5,6 

[1] Yale Univ, Sch Med, Yale Child Study Ctr, New Haven, CT USA

[2] Univ Texas Hlth Sci Ctr San Antonio, Sch Med, San Antonio, TX 78229 USA

[3] George Mason Univ, Dept Psychol, Fairfax, VA 22030 USA

[4] NIMH, Emot & Dev Branch, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892 USA

[5] Yale Child Study Ctr, Program Anxiety Disorders, New Haven, CT 06520 USA

[6] Yale Child Study Ctr, Dev Electrophysiol Lab, New Haven, CT 06520 USA

[7] Yale Univ, Sch Med, Dept Psychiat, New Haven, CT USA

[8] Yale Univ, Sch Med, Dept Neurosci, New Haven, CT USA

[9] Yale Univ, Sch Med, CASAColumbia, New Haven, CT USA

[10] Yale Univ, Sch Med, Connecticut Mental Hlth Ctr, New Haven, CT 06508 USA

关键词: Adolescence;    Depression;    Anhedonia;    Heart rate variability;    Time-frequency analysis;   

DOI  :  10.1016/j.jad.2016.02.040

来源: Elsevier

【 摘 要 】

Background: Few prospective studies examine the link between lower heart rate variability (HRV) and depression symptoms in adolescents. A recent animal model specifically links HRV to anhedonia, suggesting a potential translational model for human research. Method: We investigated the association between spectral measures of resting HRV and depressive symptoms measured one year later, among 73 adolescents, aged 11-18 years. We evaluated (1) the predictive power of relative high frequency (HF) HRV, relative low frequency (LF) and relative very low frequency (VLF) HRV for depressive symptoms; and (2) the relative strength of association between HF HRV and depressive symptomatology (anhedonia, negative mood, interpersonal problems, ineffectiveness, negative self-esteem). Results: HF HRV significantly predicted self-reported depressive symptoms across one year, controlling for age, puberty and sex. HF HRV was most strongly associated with anhedonia one year later, after considering other facets of depressive symptomatology. Conclusions: Results provide support for the prospective relationship between relative HF HRV and depressive symptoms among adolescents across one year. Findings concur with rodent models that suggest a specific link between HF HRV and anhedonia. Limitations: We investigated relative spectral power HF HRV and depressive symptom dimensions. We cannot make strong claims about these associations in clinical depression. Physical activity levels could be controlled in future work. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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