Depression is associated with increased vagal withdrawal during unpleasant emotional imagery after cardiac surgery

Autonomic Neuroscience: Basic and Clinical

Volumn 189, Issue , 2015, Pages 75-82

  Patron, Elisabetta ^a   Messerotti Benvenuti, Simone ^a   Favretto, Giuseppe ^b   Gasparotto, Renata ^b   Palomba, Daniela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b Motta di Livenza Hospital   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cardiac surgery; Cardiovascular reactivity; Depression; Heart rate variability; Imagery; Mood

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CENTER FOR EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDIES OF DEPRESSION SCALE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; IMAGERY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; SCORING SYSTEM; UNPLEASANT EMOTIONAL IMAGERY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMOTION; IMAGINATION; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; QUESTIONNAIRE; REST; SELF REPORT; VAGUS NERVE; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NARRATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; REST; SELF REPORT; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; VAGUS NERVE;

EID: 84925842823     PISSN: 15660702     EISSN: 18727484     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.autneu.2015.02.002     Document Type: Article

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