Are affective disorders associated with alterations of heart rate variability?

Journal of Affective Disorders

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 1994, Pages 271-275

  Rechlin, Thomas ^a   Weis, Maria ^a   Spitzer, Alfred ^a   Kaschka, Wolfgang P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Heart rate analysis; Heart rate variability; Melancholic depression; Panic disorder; Reactive depression

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECTIVE NEUROSIS; ARTICLE; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANCHOLIA; PANIC; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPATHETIC FUNCTION;

ADJUSTMENT DISORDERS; ADULT; AMITRIPTYLINE; AROUSAL; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; MALE; PANIC DISORDER; PARASYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 0028566121     PISSN: 01650327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0165-0327(94)90091-4     Document Type: Article

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