To manage stress, seek mental health support, whether that’s from family and friends, or a therapist, says Dr. Naidu.

If you wear a fitness tracker, you've likely seen a stat labeled "HRV" pop up on your screen. But what does it mean, and does it matter? Short for heart rate variability, HRV has become a popular ...

Thanks to wearable devices, you can use all sorts of metrics to keep track of your health. You can check your weight, blood pressure, the number of steps you take, heart rate and more as you go about ...

An intriguing link between mind and body can be found by tracking the beats of the heart. People struggling with clinical depression often have an altered heart rhythm compared to people who are not ...

Aparna Balasubramanian, MD, discusses the importance of measurements such as heart rate variability, but also that there’s no such thing as just 1 biomarker that will give all information for ...

A post hoc analysis found that the effect of transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation (taVNS) on cardiac and inflammatory stress responses was critically dependent on variability in baseline ...