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In a randomized trial of 20 healthy adults, researchers recorded EKGs during a 3-minute baseline, a 15-minute massage, and a 3-minute postmassage period. Moderate pressure massage raised the high-frequency (HF) heart-rate variability measure and lowered the LF/HF ratio, which the authors say indicates increased parasympathetic (vagal) activity peaking in the…
The results suggested that CFS is associated with IFOF WM deficits which continue to deteriorate at an abnormal rate. J. Magn. Reson. Imaging 2016;44:1301-1311.
Researchers tested 33 healthy people to see how lightheadedness and brain blood flow are linked. During hyperventilation that lowered CO2, people's reports of lightheadedness matched drops in cerebral blood flow velocity (CBFv). After a few such episodes, a smell that had been paired with hyperventilation later triggered more lightheadedness and…
