Investigating the Autonomic Nervous System Response to Anxiety in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Kushki, Azadeh ^a   Drumm, Ellen ^a   Pla Mobarak, Michele ^a   Tanel, Nadia ^a   Dupuis, Annie ^a,b   Chau, Tom ^a,c   Anagnostou, Evdokia ^a,d  

^a University of Toronto   (Canada)

^b HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AUTISM; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL INDICATOR; COGNITION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTRODERMAL RESPONSE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NEUROTRANSMISSION; PARASYMPATHETIC TONE; POPULATION RESEARCH; RECREATION; SCHOOL CHILD; SKIN TEMPERATURE; SYMPATHETIC TONE; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

ADOLESCENT; ANXIETY; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BEHAVIOR; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS, PERVASIVE; FEMALE; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; SKIN TEMPERATURE; STROOP TEST;

EID: 84875943460     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0059730     Document Type: Article

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