Association between heart rate variability and fluctuations in resting-state functional connectivity

NeuroImage

Volumn 68, Issue , 2013, Pages 93-104

  Chang, Catie ^a,b,c   Metzger, Coraline D ^d   Glover, Gary H ^b,c   Duyn, Jeff H ^a   Heinze, Hans Jochen ^d   Walter, Martin ^d  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Autonomic nervous system; Functional connectivity; Heart rate variability; Resting state fMRI; Spontaneous activity; Vigilance

Indexed keywords

ALERTNESS; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN STEM; BREATHING RATE; CEREBELLUM; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LUNG VOLUME; MESENCEPHALON; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PARASYMPATHETIC TONE; POSTCENTRAL GYRUS; POSTERIOR INSULA; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUTAMEN; RESPONSE TIME; SUPPLEMENTARY MOTOR AREA; SYMPATHETIC TONE; THALAMUS;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; HEART RATE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; REST; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84871829601     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.11.038     Document Type: Article

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