Reduced Cardiac Vagal Modulation Impacts on Cognitive Performance in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Beaumont, Alison ^a   Burton, Alexander R ^a   Lemon, Jim ^a   Bennett, Barbara K ^a,b   Lloyd, Andrew ^a   Vollmer Conna, Uté ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b PRINCE OF WALES HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISTRESS SYNDROME; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE INTENSITY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; GROUPS BY AGE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; QUESTIONNAIRE; REACTION TIME; SEX DIFFERENCE; VAGUS TONE;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COGNITION; FATIGUE SYNDROME, CHRONIC; FEMALE; HEART; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MIDDLE AGED; VAGUS NERVE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84869128218     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0049518     Document Type: Article

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