Anger, emotion, and arrhythmias: From brain to heart

Frontiers in Physiology

Volumn 2 OCT, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Taggart, Peter ^a   Boyett, Mark R ^b   Logantha, Sunil Jit R J ^b   Lambiase, Pier D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON HOSPITALS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anger; Brain heart system; Emotion; Mental stress

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861637262     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664042X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2011.00067     Document Type: Article

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