Increased vagal tone during winter in subsyndromal seasonal affective disorder

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 28-34

  Austen, Margaret L ^a   Wilson, George V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Autonomic nervous system; Heart rate; Respiratory sinus arrhythmia; Seasonal affective disorder; Seasonality; Vagal tone

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECTIVE NEUROSIS; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BODY MASS; BODY TEMPERATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; FITNESS; HEART RATE; HIBERNATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINUS ARRHYTHMIA; SKIN CONDUCTANCE; STRESS; VAGUS TONE; WINTER;

ADULT; ARRHYTHMIA, SINUS; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS INDEX; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ERGOMETRY; FEMALE; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; RESPIRATION; SEASONAL AFFECTIVE DISORDER; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; VAGUS NERVE;

EID: 0035394418     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3223(00)01102-1     Document Type: Article

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