Effect of mental challenge induced by movie clips on action potential duration in normal human subjects independent of heart rate

Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 518-523

  Child, Nicholas ^a,b   Hanson, Ben ^c   Bishop, Martin ^b   Rinaldi, Christopher A ^a   Bostock, Julian ^a   Western, David ^c   Cooklin, Michael ^a   O'Neil, Mark ^a   Wright, Matthew ^a   Razavi, Reza ^a,b   Gill, Jaswinder ^a   Taggart, Peter ^d  

^a GUY'S AND ST THOMAS' NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON HOSPITALS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Action potentials; Arrhythmias, cardiac; Stress, psychological

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIALS; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; AGED; BLOOD PRESSURE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTION PICTURES AS TOPIC; REFERENCE VALUES; SAMPLING STUDIES; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION;

EID: 84905824423     PISSN: 19413149     EISSN: 19413084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCEP.113.000909     Document Type: Article

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