Heart rate variability: New perspectives on physiological mechanisms, assessment of self-regulatory capacity, and health risk

Global Advances In Health and Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 46-61

  McCraty, Rollin ^a   Shaffer, Fred ^b  

^a Institute of HeartMath   (United States)

^b TRUMAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Health risk; Heart rate variability; Physiological mechanisms; Self regulatory capacity

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; AUTOREGULATION; BASAL GANGLION; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CARDIOVASCULAR FUNCTION; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CINGULATE GYRUS; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HEALTH HAZARD; HEALTH STATUS; HEART MUSCLE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HEART RHYTHM; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS; INSULA; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE CONDUCTION; NEUROBIOLOGY; NEUROMODULATION; ORBITAL CORTEX; PERCEPTION; PRESSORECEPTOR REFLEX; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84953379436     PISSN: 2164957X     EISSN: 21649561     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7453/gahmj.2014.073     Document Type: Review

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