Discordant mental and physical efforts in an autistic patient

Brain and Development

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 519-524

  Ming, Xue ^a   Julu, Peter O O ^b   Wark, James ^c   Apartopoulos, Flora ^d   Hansen, Stig ^d  

^a RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b CENTRAL MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c RUTGERS ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d NHS GREATER GLASGOW AND CLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Autism; Baroreflex sensitivity; Brainstem; Cardiac vagal tone; Mental efforts

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION; BRAIN STEM RESPONSE; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; INFANTILE AUTISM; ISOMETRIC EXERCISE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; PHYSICAL CAPACITY; PRESSORECEPTOR REFLEX; VAGUS TONE; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

ADOLESCENT; AROUSAL; AUTISTIC DISORDER; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; AUTONOMIC PATHWAYS; BAROREFLEX; BRAIN STEM; CARDIOVASCULAR PHYSIOLOGY; COGNITION DISORDERS; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; EXERCISE; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; VAGUS NERVE DISEASES; VOLITION;

EID: 7744240902     PISSN: 03877604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.braindev.2004.02.005     Document Type: Article

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