Cardiac vagal activity during psychological stress varies with social functioning in older women

Psychophysiology

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1046-1054

  Egizio, Victoria B ^a,b   Jennings, J Richard ^b   Christie, Israel C ^b   Sheu, Lei K ^b   Matthews, Karen A ^b,c   Gianaros, Peter J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood pressure; Heart rate variability; Individual differences; Social factors

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; AUTOREGULATION; FEMALE; HEART FUNCTION; HEART RATE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MENTAL STRESS; NORMAL HUMAN; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL INTERACTION; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION;

EID: 54049127444     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: 14698986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2008.00698.x     Document Type: Article

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