Richard Gevirtz
Biographic Data
| ID | 2050958 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard Gevirtz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard |
| FAMILY NAME | Gevirtz |
| SIGNATURE | GEVIRTZ R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Alliant University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2625-8304 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Pediatric Heart Rate Variability During Play and Neurocognitive Testing
Parent‐child play is crucial in shaping child development, where play also facilitates autonomic nervous system integration. However, less is known about how parental perceptions of play impact childhood autonomic profiles, which have been associated with enhanced feelings of safety, responsiveness, comfort, and improved learning. This study recorded heart rate variability (HRV) among a sample of young children aged 3–7 years old ( N = 45; 42% gi…
Contributing factors predicting nightmares in children
The predictive power of anxiety, dissociation, vagal tone, and trauma history was not entirely due to their overlap, as shown by uniquely significant beta weights in the prediction of distress. Treatment procedures with multiple intervention points targeting physiological and psychological sources of nightmare distress may be warranted. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2018 APA, all rights reserved)
Reduction of Autonomic Regulation in Children and Adolescents With Conversion Disorders
OBJECTIVE: Conversion symptoms--functional neurological disturbances of body function--occur in association with extreme arousal, often in the context of emotional distress. The mechanisms that determine how and why such symptoms occur remain unknown. In this study, we used cardiac measures to assess arousal and cardiac autonomic regulation in children and adolescents who presented with acute conversion symptoms. METHODS: Heart rate was recorded …
Food exposure, cravings, and physiological reactivity in normal-weight subjects
Autonomic Effects of Expressive Writing in Individuals with Elevated Blood Pressure
We evaluated systolic and diastolic blood pressure, heart rate variability and skin conductance at basline, and 1 and 4 months in 38 participants with elevated blood pressure, randomly assigned to expressive writing or control groups. There was a significant interaction such that the very low frequency wave of heart rate variability increased over time only in controls, suggesting potentially protective buffering in expressive writing. Systolic a…
The Relationship between Daily Stress and Urinary Cortisol in a Normal Population
Twenty-three persons participated in a study examining the relationship between daily stressors and daily fluctuations in cortisol. For 21 days, the participants completed the Assessment of Daily Experience scale, which yielded frequency and intensity stress scores and gave an indication of the subjects' perceptions of their control over the daily stressors. Nightly urines were collected and assayed for cortisol. The prospective design of the res…
The predictive role of psychosocial stress on symptom severity in premenstrual syndrome
Twenty-five women with well defined, severe premenstrual syndrome (PMS) were studied prospectively during three consecutive menstrual cycles to examine the association between concurrent psychosocial stress and symptom severity. Stress, mood, physical symptoms, and urinary ovarian steroid metabolites were measured daily. Stress accounted for only 6% and 10% of the unique variance in physical symptom and mood scores, respectively, across the menst…
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The predictive role of psychosocial stress on symptom severity in premenstrual syndrome
Twenty-five women with well defined, severe premenstrual syndrome (PMS) were studied prospectively during three consecutive menstrual cycles to examine the association between concurrent psychosocial stress and symptom severity. Stress, mood, physical symptoms, and urinary ovarian steroid metabolites were measured daily. Stress accounted for only 6% and 10% of the unique variance in physical symptom and mood scores, respectively, across the menst…
The Relationship between Daily Stress and Urinary Cortisol in a Normal Population
Twenty-three persons participated in a study examining the relationship between daily stressors and daily fluctuations in cortisol. For 21 days, the participants completed the Assessment of Daily Experience scale, which yielded frequency and intensity stress scores and gave an indication of the subjects' perceptions of their control over the daily stressors. Nightly urines were collected and assayed for cortisol. The prospective design of the res…
Autonomic Effects of Expressive Writing in Individuals with Elevated Blood Pressure
We evaluated systolic and diastolic blood pressure, heart rate variability and skin conductance at basline, and 1 and 4 months in 38 participants with elevated blood pressure, randomly assigned to expressive writing or control groups. There was a significant interaction such that the very low frequency wave of heart rate variability increased over time only in controls, suggesting potentially protective buffering in expressive writing. Systolic a…
Food exposure, cravings, and physiological reactivity in normal-weight subjects
Reduction of Autonomic Regulation in Children and Adolescents With Conversion Disorders
OBJECTIVE: Conversion symptoms--functional neurological disturbances of body function--occur in association with extreme arousal, often in the context of emotional distress. The mechanisms that determine how and why such symptoms occur remain unknown. In this study, we used cardiac measures to assess arousal and cardiac autonomic regulation in children and adolescents who presented with acute conversion symptoms. METHODS: Heart rate was recorded …
Contributing factors predicting nightmares in children
The predictive power of anxiety, dissociation, vagal tone, and trauma history was not entirely due to their overlap, as shown by uniquely significant beta weights in the prediction of distress. Treatment procedures with multiple intervention points targeting physiological and psychological sources of nightmare distress may be warranted. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2018 APA, all rights reserved)
Pediatric Heart Rate Variability During Play and Neurocognitive Testing
Parent‐child play is crucial in shaping child development, where play also facilitates autonomic nervous system integration. However, less is known about how parental perceptions of play impact childhood autonomic profiles, which have been associated with enhanced feelings of safety, responsiveness, comfort, and improved learning. This study recorded heart rate variability (HRV) among a sample of young children aged 3–7 years old ( N = 45; 42% gi…
Psychology (6 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Clinical Psychology (4 works) · Internal Medicine (4 works) · Heart rate (3 works) · Psychiatry (3 works) · Anxiety (2 works) · Autonomic nervous system (2 works) · Blood pressure (2 works) · Cardiology (2 works)