Major depression and cardiac autonomic control

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 42, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 914-919

  Lehofer, Michael ^a   Moser, Maximilian ^a,d   Hoehn Saric, Rudolf ^b   McLeod, Daniel ^b   Liebmann, Peter ^a   Drnovsek, Birgit ^a   Egner, Sigrun ^a   Hildebrandt, Gunther ^c   Zapotoczky, Hans Georg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^d Physiological Institute   (Austria)

Author keywords

Autonomic nervous system; Heart rate; Major depression; Respiratory sinus arrhythmia; Tricyclic antidepressants

Indexed keywords

AMITRIPTYLINE; CLOMIPRAMINE; IMIPRAMINE; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART; HEART RATE; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RR INTERVAL; SINUS ARRHYTHMIA; VAGUS TONE;

ADULT; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS, TRICYCLIC; ARRHYTHMIA; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; VAGUS NERVE;

EID: 0030699182     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3223(96)00494-5     Document Type: Article

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