Mental Stress Enhances the Sympathetic Fraction of QT Variability in an RR-independent Way

Integrative Physiological and Behavioral Science

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 220-227

  Negoescu, R ^a   Dinca Panattescu, S ^a   Filcescu, V ^b   Ionescu, D ^c,e   Wolf, S ^d  

^a AISTEDA University   (Romania)

^b INSTITUTE OF PHYSIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^c Central Military Hospital Bucharest   (Romania)

^d Totts Gap Medical Research Laboratories   (United States)

^e Institute of Public Health Iasi   (Romania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HEART RATE; HEART VENTRICLE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBLEM SOLVING; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ADULT; AROUSAL; ATTENTION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HEART RATE; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MALE; PROBLEM SOLVING; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 0031183626     PISSN: 1053881X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02688620     Document Type: Article

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