Reduced Heart Rate Variability in Social Anxiety Disorder: Associations with Gender and Symptom Severity

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Alvares, Gail A ^a   Quintana, Daniel S ^a   Kemp, Andrew H ^a,b   Van Zwieten, Anita ^a   Balleine, Bernard W ^a   Hickie, Ian B ^a   Guastella, Adam J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PSYCHOTROPIC AGENT;

ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMMUNITY LIVING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE MARKER; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISTRESS SYNDROME; FEAR; FEMALE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HELP SEEKING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PSYCHIATRIC TREATMENT; REST; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL PHOBIA; SOCIAL STATUS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOBIC DISORDERS; PSYCHOTHERAPY; PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84880784327     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0070468     Document Type: Article

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