Blunted vagal reactivity predicts stress-precipitated tobacco smoking

Psychopharmacology

Volumn 220, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 259-268

  Ashare, Rebecca L ^a   Sinha, Rajita ^a,b   Lampert, Rachel ^a   Weinberger, Andrea H ^a   Anderson, George M ^b   Lavery, Meaghan E ^a   Yanagisawa, Katherine ^a   McKee, Sherry A ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Abstinence; Autonomic balance; Heart rate variability; Nicotine; Relapse; Stress; Vagal tone

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; IMAGERY; LEISURE; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT MONITORING; PHYSICAL STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REINFORCEMENT; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; TOBACCO DEPENDENCE; VAGUS TONE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BEHAVIOR, ADDICTIVE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY, AMBULATORY; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SMOKING; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TOBACCO USE DISORDER; VAGUS NERVE;

EID: 84858439231     PISSN: 00333158     EISSN: 14322072     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00213-011-2473-3     Document Type: Article

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