Abstract
The purpose of this study was to investigate the difference in the ability to control the heart rate (HR) in neurotic patients and non-neurotic subjects. Subjects were nine neurotic patients and 10 non-neurotic subjects. They received two feedback training sessions for increasing and decreasing the HR with an interval of one week. The results indicated that the non-neurotic subjects were able to control their HR without feedback, but the feedback training disturbed the HR control in the neurotic patients. The findings of this study suggest that the neurotic patients may have learned a wrong recognition of their cardiovascular activity.
