Heart Rate Variability Biofeedback Treatment for Post-Stroke Depression Patients: A Pilot Study

Treatment for post-stroke depression (PSD) is a very complicated system engineering, and it need quite a long time to see the effect. In this paper, through clinical trials, we adopt the method of heart rate variability biofeedback treatment for PSD patients. Through analysis of clinical trials, we hope to improve the situation of emotion on patients, the autonomic nervous function and reduce the impact by the prognosis of heart rate variability biofeedback, with dynamic observation of indices of variation on heart rate variability biofeedback under pressure/non-pressure, and summary of training scheme for PSD patients. In our research, by activating and enhancing the Baroreceptor Reflex function, it can improve the HRV indices and make mood better. We focused on heart rate variability biofeedback influence on depression and anxiety in clinical trials of its impact and corresponding experimental results is obtained.