Heritability of respiratory sinus arrhythmia: Dependency on task and respiration rate

Psychophysiology

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 317-328

  Snieder, Harold ^a,b   Boomsma, Dorret I ^a   Van Doornen, Lorenz J P ^a   De Geus, Eco J C ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b ST THOMAS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Age; Heritability; Respiration rate; Respiratory sinus arrhythmia; Stress tasks; Twins

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREATHING RATE; FEMALE; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY SINUS ARRHYTHMIA; SINUS ARRHYTHMIA; STRESS; TWINS; VAGUS TONE;

EID: 0030946193     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.1997.tb02402.x     Document Type: Article

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