The Effect of Animal Assisted Therapy with a Dog on the Autonomic Nervous System

Kitakanto Medical Journal

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1-4

  Koike, Hiroto ^a   Matsui, Hiroki ^a   Kaneko, Megumi ^a   Kamata, Tomoko ^a   Motooka, Masahiko ^b   Suzuki, Tadashi ^c   Yokoyama, Tomoyuki ^a  

^a GUNMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b RAKUNO GAKUEN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Fujioka General Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alternative medicine; Animal assisted therapy; Autonomic nerve; Complementary medicine; Heart rate variability

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ANIMAL ASSISTED THERAPY; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PARASYMPATHETIC NERVE; POWER SPECTRUM; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

EID: 1342302760     PISSN: 13432826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2974/kmj.54.1     Document Type: Article

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