Idioventricular Low Frequency Oscillation in QT Interval Responds Univocally to RR Confusing Kinds of Mental Stress

Integrative Physiological and Behavioral Science

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 10-18

  Dincǎ Panaitescu, Serban ^a   Dincǎ Panaitescu, Mihaela ^a   Achim, Alin ^a   Negoescu, Radu ^a,b  

^a AISTEDA University   (Romania)

^b Institutul Sanatate Pub Bucuresti ^*  (Romania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BRAIN CORTEX; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMOTION; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HEART RATE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBLEM SOLVING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SINUS ARRHYTHMIA;

ADULT; AROUSAL; ARRHYTHMIA, SINUS; ATTENTION; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY, AMBULATORY; EMOTIONS; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; PROBLEM SOLVING; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 0032605293     PISSN: 1053881X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02688706     Document Type: Article

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