Cerebral correlates of heart rate variations during a spontaneous panic attack in the fMRI scanner

Neurocase

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 527-534

  Spiegelhalder, Kai ^a   Hornyak, Magdolna ^a   Kyle, Simon David ^b   Paul, Dominik ^a   Blechert, Jens ^a   Seifritz, Erich ^c   Hennig, Jurgen ^a   van Elst, Ludger Tebartz ^a   Riemann, Dieter ^a   Feige, Bernd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Amygdala; ECG; fMRI; Insula; Panic attack

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CASE REPORT; CLAUSTROPHOBIA; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; INSULA; LEFT MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PANIC; RESTLESS LEGS SYNDROME; SPONTANEOUS PANIC ATTACK; VISUAL CORTEX;

BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; PANIC DISORDER; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESTLESS LEGS SYNDROME; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 74749099658     PISSN: 13554794     EISSN: 14653656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13554790903066909     Document Type: Article

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