Associations between the cortisol awakening response and heart rate variability

Psychoneuroendocrinology

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 454-462

  Stalder, Tobias ^a,b   Evans, Phil ^a   Hucklebridge, Frank ^a   Clow, Angela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER   (United Kingdom)

^b DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Autonomic; CAR; Cortisol awakening response; Heart rate variability; Human; Saliva

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE;

ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; CHRONIC STRESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYDROCORTISONE RELEASE; HYDROCORTISONE SALIVA LEVEL; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALIVA LEVEL; SELF REPORT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALGORITHMS; AROUSAL; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY, AMBULATORY; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; MALE; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; PSYCHOLOGY; SALIVA; WAKEFULNESS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79952043826     PISSN: 03064530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2010.07.020     Document Type: Article

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