The relation of ventromedial prefrontal cortex activity and heart rate fluctuations at rest

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 30, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2205-2210

  Ziegler, Gabriel ^a   Dahnke, Robert ^a   Yeragani, Vikram K ^b,c   Bär, Karl Jürgen ^a,d  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^d RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Central autonomic network; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Heart rate variability; Human; Prefrontal cortex; Vagal function

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEART DEPOLARIZATION; HEART RATE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OXYGEN BLOOD LEVEL; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RR INTERVAL;

BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ENTROPY; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; OXYGEN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REST;

EID: 71249102666     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2009.07008.x     Document Type: Article

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