Heart Rate Variability in Patients with Major Depression

Psychosomatics

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 129-134

  Nahshoni, Eitan ^a   Aravot, Dan ^b   Aizenberg, Dov ^b   Sigler, Mayanit ^b   Zalsman, Gil ^b   Strasberg, Boris ^b   Imbar, Shula ^b   Adler, Edgar ^b   Weizman, Abraham ^b  

^a GEHA MENTAL HEALTH CENTER   (Israel)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIAC ANXIETY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART AUTOMATICITY; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; VAGUS TONE;

EID: 1442325458     PISSN: 00333182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/appi.psy.45.2.129     Document Type: Article

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