Investigating the mechanisms of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular regulation in orthostatic syncope through an information decomposition strategy

Autonomic Neuroscience: Basic and Clinical

Volumn 178, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 76-82

  Faes, Luca ^a   Porta, Alberto ^b   Rossato, Gianluca ^c   Adami, Alessandro ^c   Tonon, Davide ^c   Corica, Antonio ^c   Nollo, Giandomenico ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^c SACRO CUORE DON CALABRIA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Baroreflex; Cerebral autoregulation; Conditional entropy; Head up tilt; Information dynamics

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN BLOOD VESSEL; BRAIN CIRCULATION; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FAINTNESS; HEAD TILTING; HEART CYCLE; HUMAN; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION STORAGE; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; PRESSORECEPTOR REFLEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM;

BAROREFLEX; CEREBRAL AUTOREGULATION; CONDITIONAL ENTROPY; HEAD-UP TILT; INFORMATION DYNAMICS;

ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CHILD; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SYNCOPE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84885182464     PISSN: 15660702     EISSN: 18727484     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.autneu.2013.02.013     Document Type: Article

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