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Editorial: Dysregulation of Autonomic Cardiac Control by Traumatic Stress and Anxiety.

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  • Specialty section: This article was submitted to Psychology for Clinical Settings, a section of the journal Frontiers in Psychology

  • Loss of regulation of normal autonomic control of cardiac adjustment to environmental stressors leads to negative impacts on physiological function affecting arterial blood pressure, heart rate and rhythm, and vagal afference

  • Allostatic load is a term that has been used for decades to describe “the wear and tear on the body” which grows over time when the individual is exposed to repeated or chronic stress (McEwen and Stellar, 1993)

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Specialty section: This article was submitted to Psychology for Clinical Settings, a section of the journal Frontiers in Psychology. Dysregulation of Autonomic Cardiac Control by Traumatic Stress and Anxiety Loss of regulation of normal autonomic control of cardiac adjustment to environmental stressors leads to negative impacts on physiological function affecting arterial blood pressure, heart rate and rhythm, and vagal afference.

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