Sympathetic skin response and heart rate variability in patients with Huntington disease

Archives of Neurology

Volumn 56, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 1248-1252

  Sharma, Khema R ^a   Romano, Jose G ^a   Ram Ayyar, D ^a   Rotta, Francisco T ^a   Facca, Alicia ^a   Sanchez Ramos, Juan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOOT SOLE; HAND PALM; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPATHETIC TONE; VALSALVA MANEUVER;

ADULT; AGED; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; FEMALE; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; HUNTINGTON DISEASE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURAL CONDUCTION; PERONEAL NERVE; REACTION TIME; SURAL NERVE; VALSALVA MANEUVER;

EID: 0032844930     PISSN: 00039942     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archneur.56.10.1248     Document Type: Article

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