Exaggerated electrodermal startle responses after intracardiac shock discharges in patients with implanted cardioverter defibrillators

Psychosomatic Medicine

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 222-228

  Ladwig, Karl Heinz ^a,b   Marten Mittag, Birgitt ^a   Deisenhofer, Isabel ^b   Hofmann, Birgit ^a   Schapperer, Johannes ^a   Weyerbrock, Sonja ^b   Schmitt, Claus ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Electromyogram response; Implantable cardioverter defibrillator; Shock sensitization; Skin conductance response; Startle reflex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; CARDIOGENIC SHOCK; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFIBRILLATOR; ELECTRODERMAL RESPONSE; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FEMALE; HABITUATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ORBICULARIS OCULI MUSCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIZATION; SKIN CONDUCTANCE; STARTLE REFLEX; SYMPATHETIC TONE;

DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; ELECTRIC COUNTERSHOCK; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; HUMANS; STARTLE REACTION;

EID: 0037346588     PISSN: 00333174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.PSY.0000023463.00654.4A     Document Type: Article

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