Cardiac autonomic impairment during sleep as a marker of human prion diseases: A preliminary report

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 125, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 208-210

  Palma, Jose Alberto ^a   Iriarte, Jorge ^a   Alegre, Manuel ^b   Valencia, Miguel ^a   Artieda, Julio ^b   Urrestarazu, Elena ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY CLINIC OF NAVARRA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APNEA HYPOPNEA INDEX; AROUSAL; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BODY MASS; BREATHING DISORDER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAYTIME SOMNOLENCE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EEG ABNORMALITY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FATAL FAMILIAL INSOMNIA; HUMAN; LETTER; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NONREM SLEEP; OXYGEN SATURATION; PARASYMPATHETIC TONE; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PRESSORECEPTOR REFLEX; PRION DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REM SLEEP; SLEEP; SLEEP SPINDLE; SPORADIC CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; VAGUS NERVE DORSAL NUCLEUS; VARIANT CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; WAKEFULNESS;

AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; FEMALE; HEART; HUMANS; MALE; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PRION DISEASES; SLEEP;

EID: 84890208835     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: 18728952     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2013.06.008     Document Type: Letter

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