Taking a closer look: Autonomic dysregulation in socially anxious children

European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 631-640

  Schmitz, Julian ^a   Tuschen Caffier, Brunna ^a   Wilhelm, Frank H ^b   Blechert, Jens ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

Author keywords

Autonomic nervous system; Children; Heart rate; Low frequency variability; Social anxiety; Social stress; Sympathetic

Indexed keywords

ADRENERGIC ACTIVITY; ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR CHECKLIST; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; CROSS REACTION; DEPRESSION INVENTORY; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; HEART FUNCTION; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; NORMAL HUMAN; PSYCHOMETRY; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; SCHOOL CHILD; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL PHOBIA; SOCIAL STRESS; SPEECH;

ADOLESCENT; ANXIETY; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CHILD; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOBIC DISORDERS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84885578203     PISSN: 10188827     EISSN: 1435165X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00787-013-0405-y     Document Type: Article

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