Effect of slowed respiration on cardiac parasympathetic response to threat

Psychosomatic Medicine

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 32-37

  Sakakibara, Masahito ^a,b   Hayano, Junichiro ^a  

^a NAGOYA CITY UNIV MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b Tokai Central Hospital of the Mutual Aid Association of Public School Teachers   (Japan)

Author keywords

autonomic nervous system; cardiovascular responsiveness; heart rate variability; power spectral analysis; respiration

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTICIPATION; ANXIETY NEUROSIS; ARTICLE; BREATHING PATTERN; BREATHING RATE; CARDIOVASCULAR RESPONSE; ELECTRIC SHOCK; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARASYMPATHETIC INNERVATION; PNEUMOGRAPHY; POWER SPECTRUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; R WAVE; THREAT;

EID: 0030049622     PISSN: 00333174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006842-199601000-00006     Document Type: Article

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