Heart rate variability in patients with post-traumatic stress disorder or borderline personality disorder: relationship to early life maltreatment

Journal of Neural Transmission

Volumn 123, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 1107-1118

  Meyer, Peter Wolfgang ^a   Müller, Laura E ^a   Zastrow, Arne ^b   Schmidinger, Ilinca ^a   Bohus, Martin ^a,c   Herpertz, Sabine C ^a   Bertsch, Katja ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b Psychiatric Center Nordbaden   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Autonomous nervous system; Childhood trauma; Electrocardiogram; Parasympathetic activity; RMSSD

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BORDERLINE STATE; CHILDHOOD TRAUMA QUESTIONNAIRE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EARLY LIFE STRESS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMISSION; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART RATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSICAL ABUSE; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICAL ABUSE; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84975105903     PISSN: 03009564     EISSN: 14351463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00702-016-1584-8     Document Type: Article

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