Stability of heart rate variability indices reflecting parasympathetic activity

Psychophysiology

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 672-682

  Bertsch, Katja ^a,b   Hagemann, Dirk ^c   Naumann, Ewald ^b   Schächinger, Hartmut ^b   Schulz, André ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Autonomous nervous system; Electrocardiogram; Heart rate variability; Latent; Parasympathetic nervous system; Respiratory sinus arrhythmia; RSA; State trait model

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859575499     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: 14698986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2011.01341.x     Document Type: Article

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