Regional cerebral blood flow correlates with heart period and high-frequency heart period variability during working-memory tasks: Implications for the cortical and subcortical regulation of cardiac autonomic activity

Psychophysiology

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 521-530

  Gianaros, Peter J ^a,d   Van Der Veen, Frederik M ^b   Jennings, J Richard ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Central cardiac autonomic regulation; Heart period; High frequency heart period variability; Positron emission tomography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN REGION; CEREBELLUM; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CINGULATE GYRUS; FEMALE; HEART CYCLE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSULA; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 3042754035     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1469-8986.2004.00179.x     Document Type: Article

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