The association between trait anxiety and the fear of being laughed at in college: A preliminary study with a Brazilian sample.

Aim: To evaluate how gelotophobia correlates with trait anxiety in a sample of Brazilian college students.

Methods: We evaluated the association of GELOPH < 15 > scores with both self-reported experiences of bullying victimization and trait anxiety measures assessed by the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI). The study consisted of a sample of 65 adult volunteers (M = 21.

Dynamic coupling between the central and autonomic cardiac nervous systems in patients with refractory epilepsy: A pilot study.

The heart and brain are reciprocally interconnected and engage in two-way communication for homeostatic regulation. Epilepsy is considered a network disease that also affects the autonomic nervous system (ANS). The neurovisceral integration model (NVM) proposes that cardiac vagal tone, indexed by heart rate variability (HRV), can indicate the functional integrity of cognitive neural networks.