High-frequency heart rate variability and cortico-striatal activity in men and women with social phobia

NeuroImage

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 815-820

  Åhs, Fredrik ^a   Sollers III, John J ^b   Furmark, Tomas ^a   Fredrikson, Mats ^a   Thayer, Julian F ^b,c  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Heart rate variability; PET; Regional cerebral blood flow; Stress

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN REGION; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CINGULATE GYRUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINERGIC TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC SPEAKING; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL PHOBIA; TASK PERFORMANCE; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION;

ADULT; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOBIC DISORDERS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 67651008254     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2009.05.091     Document Type: Article

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