Diminished vagal activity and blunted diurnal variation of heart rate dynamics in posttraumatic stress disorder

Stress

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 300-310

  Agorastos, Agorastos ^a,b   Boel, Judith A ^c   Heppner, Pia S ^d,e   Hager, Torben ^c   Moeller Bertram, Tobias ^a,d,e   Haji, Uzair ^e   Motazedi, Arame ^e   Yanagi, Matthew A ^a   Baker, Dewleen G ^a,d,e   Stiedl, Oliver ^c  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e VA SAN DIEGO HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomic nervous system; Detrended fluctuation analysis; Heart rate variability; Parasympathetic nervous system; Posttraumatic stress disorder; Sympathetic nervous system

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DYNAMICS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HAMILTON SCALE; HEART FUNCTION; HEART RATE; HUMAN; MALE; PARASYMPATHETIC TONE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SUPINE POSITION; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION;

ADULT; AFGHAN CAMPAIGN 2001-; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; COMBAT DISORDERS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY, AMBULATORY; HEART; HEART RATE; HUMANS; IRAQ WAR, 2003 - 2011; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; TIME FACTORS; VAGUS NERVE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84876129033     PISSN: 10253890     EISSN: 16078888     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/10253890.2012.751369     Document Type: Article

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