Reduced heart rate variability and vagal tone in anxiety: Trait versus state, and the effects of autogenic training

Autonomic Neuroscience: Basic and Clinical

Volumn 145, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 99-103

  Miu, Andrei C ^a   Heilman, Renata M ^a   Miclea, Mircea ^a  

^a BABE BOLYAI UNIVERSITY   (Romania)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Autogenic training; Heart rate variability; Mental stress; Vagal tone

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; AUTOGENIC TRAINING; AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION; BREATHING RATE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; RISK FACTOR; RR INTERVAL; SKIN CONDUCTANCE; VAGUS TONE;

ANXIETY; AUTOGENIC TRAINING; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; RELAXATION; VAGUS NERVE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 58149503774     PISSN: 15660702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.autneu.2008.11.010     Document Type: Article

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