{"id":3165,"date":"2014-10-03T11:58:55","date_gmt":"2014-10-03T16:58:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=3165"},"modified":"2014-10-03T11:58:55","modified_gmt":"2014-10-03T16:58:55","slug":"taking-the-pulse-of-stress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/taking-the-pulse-of-stress\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking the pulse of stress<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\" alt=\"SMCC-english2\" width=\"255\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have discovered that, contrary to what you might think, a less variable heartbeat might be associated with a higher susceptibility to stress.<\/p>\n<p>The team recorded heart rate variability in 76 student participants while they were relaxing and while they were thinking about things they tend to worry about most. They also tracked participants\u2019 moods at a time of low stress early in the semester and at a time of high stress right before exams.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers\u00a0found that those who exhibited a less variable heartbeat when they started worrying were more likely to be highly stressed later on, when faced with finals. Having an objective tool to diagnose stress susceptibility could help practitioners stop stress before it starts.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/content\/346\/6205\/56.abstract\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in the journal\u00a0<em>Stress<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em>in\u00a0<strong>September, 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4>Jean-Philippe Gouin, Canada Research Chair in Chronic Stress and Health, Concordia University<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have discovered that, contrary to what you might think, a less variable heartbeat might be associated with a higher susceptibility to stress. The team recorded heart rate variability in 76 student participants while they were relaxing and while they were thinking about things they tend to worry about most. They also tracked participants\u2019 moods [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[51,1990,53,476,849,2192],"class_list":["post-3165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-health","tag-heart","tag-medicine","tag-public-health","tag-quebec-en","tag-stress-en"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-P3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3168,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3165\/revisions\/3168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}