Postural neurocognitive and neuronal activated cerebral blood flow deficits in young chronic fatigue syndrome patients with postural tachycardia syndrome

American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology

Volumn 302, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Stewart, Julian M ^a   Medow, Marvin S ^a   Messer, Zachary R ^a   Baugham, Ila L ^a   Terilli, Courtney ^a   Ocon, Anthony J ^a  

^a NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognition; Functional hyperemia; Orthostatic stress

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN PERFUSION; CEREBRAL BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICAL CLOSING PRESSURE; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEAD TILTING; HEMODYNAMIC PARAMETERS; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; METABOLIC REGULATION; ORTHOSTATIC STRESS; PERFUSION PRESSURE; POSTURAL NEUROCOGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; POSTURAL ORTHOSTATIC TACHYCARDIA SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; STANDING; VASODILATATION; VASOMOTOR REFLEX; WORKING MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD PRESSURE; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CEREBRUM; COGNITION DISORDERS; FATIGUE SYNDROME, CHRONIC; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; POSTURAL ORTHOSTATIC TACHYCARDIA SYNDROME; POSTURE; REACTION TIME; TILT-TABLE TEST; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84857345903     PISSN: 03636135     EISSN: 15221539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00994.2011     Document Type: Article

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