Linking Brain, Heart, and Behavior in Children: Frontal Electroencephalogram Activity, Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia, and Internalizing Behaviors

Youre Yang, Kristie L. Poole, Louis A. Schmidt · 2026

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Youre Yang, Kristie Poole, and Louis Schmidt report a study from two thousand twenty-six on stress responses and behavior in children. The work focuses on inward-turned distress such as anxiety and low mood. Brain and heart signals during stress may each relate to such behavior, but they may also work together.

The team studied one hundred fifty-two children of about eight years of age. They measured brain activity from the scalp and a heart rhythm pattern at rest and during a stress task. Children whose brain activity rose while their heart pattern fell showed more inward distress. When the heart pattern rose instead, the link was weaker. The results suggest both signals should be read together.

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CREATORYoure Yang, Kristie L. Poole, Louis A. Schmidt
YEAR2026
COLLECTIONPAPERS
FORMATTXT
FILE SIZE34 KB
VERSION1.0
LICENSECC BY 4.0
RIGHTSCC BY
SOURCEEurope PMC

Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC13519377

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