Autonomic nervous function after evening bright light therapy: Spectral analysis of heart rate variability

Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 363-364

  Sakakibara, Satoshi ^a   Honma, Hiroshi ^a   Kohsaka, Masako ^b   Fukuda, Noriko ^b   Kawai, Ikuko ^b   Kobayashi, Riko ^b   Koyama, Tsukasa ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Autonomic nervous function; Bright light; Heart rate variability; Sleep; Spectral analysis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; BRIGHTNESS; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NIGHT; NORMAL HUMAN; PHOTOTHERAPY; SPECTROSCOPY; SYMPATHETIC TONE;

ADULT; AROUSAL; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HEART RATE; HUMANS; PHOTOTHERAPY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 0033921068     PISSN: 13231316     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1819.2000.00716.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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