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Respiratory sinus arrhythmia in blood phobic subjects. 1997

A Angrilli, and M Sarlo, and D Palomba, and M Schincaglia, and L Stegagno

Dipartimento di Psicologia Generale, Padova, Italy. angirilli@psico.unipd.it

12 blood-phobic subjects, selected according to the Fear Survey Schedule and the Mutilation Questionnaire, and 50 control subjects performed a paced respiration task during which heart rate and respiration were recorded. Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia (RSA) was analyzed as an autonomic index of vagal influence on the heart. Analysis showed a larger RSA in the blood-phobic group than the controls and points to a difference in vagal activity at rest between the groups.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D010555	Personality Inventory	Check list, usually to be filled out by a person about himself, consisting of many statements about personal characteristics which the subject checks.	Edwards Personal Preference Schedule,Myers-Briggs Type Indicator,Indicator, Myers-Briggs Type,Inventories, Personality,Inventory, Personality,Myers Briggs Type Indicator,Personality Inventories
D010698	Phobic Disorders	Anxiety disorders in which the essential feature is persistent and irrational fear of a specific object, activity, or situation that the individual feels compelled to avoid. The individual recognizes the fear as excessive or unreasonable.	Claustrophobia,Neuroses, Phobic,Phobia, School,Phobias,Phobic Neuroses,Scolionophobia,Disorder, Phobic,Phobia,Phobic Disorder,School Phobia
D012119	Respiration	The act of breathing with the LUNGS, consisting of INHALATION, or the taking into the lungs of the ambient air, and of EXHALATION, or the expelling of the modified air which contains more CARBON DIOXIDE than the air taken in (Blakiston's Gould Medical Dictionary, 4th ed.). This does not include tissue respiration (	Breathing
D001769	Blood	The body fluid that circulates in the vascular system (BLOOD VESSELS). Whole blood includes PLASMA and BLOOD CELLS.
D006321	Heart	The hollow, muscular organ that maintains the circulation of the blood.	Hearts
D006339	Heart Rate	The number of times the HEART VENTRICLES contract per unit of time, usually per minute.	Cardiac Rate,Chronotropism, Cardiac,Heart Rate Control,Heartbeat,Pulse Rate,Cardiac Chronotropy,Cardiac Chronotropism,Cardiac Rates,Chronotropy, Cardiac,Control, Heart Rate,Heart Rates,Heartbeats,Pulse Rates,Rate Control, Heart,Rate, Cardiac,Rate, Heart,Rate, Pulse
D006801	Humans	Members of the species Homo sapiens.	Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D001146	Arrhythmia, Sinus	Irregular HEART RATE caused by abnormal function of the SINOATRIAL NODE. It is characterized by a greater than 10% change between the maximum and the minimum sinus cycle length or 120 milliseconds.	Sinus Arrhythmia,Arrhythmia, Sinoatrial,Sinoatrial Arrhythmia,Arrhythmias, Sinoatrial,Arrhythmias, Sinus,Sinoatrial Arrhythmias,Sinus Arrhythmias
D014630	Vagus Nerve	The 10th cranial nerve. The vagus is a mixed nerve which contains somatic afferents (from skin in back of the ear and the external auditory meatus), visceral afferents (from the pharynx, larynx, thorax, and abdomen), parasympathetic efferents (to the thorax and abdomen), and efferents to striated muscle (of the larynx and pharynx).	Cranial Nerve X,Pneumogastric Nerve,Tenth Cranial Nerve,Nerve X,Nervus Vagus,Cranial Nerve, Tenth,Cranial Nerves, Tenth,Nerve X, Cranial,Nerve Xs,Nerve, Pneumogastric,Nerve, Tenth Cranial,Nerve, Vagus,Nerves, Pneumogastric,Nerves, Tenth Cranial,Nerves, Vagus,Pneumogastric Nerves,Tenth Cranial Nerves,Vagus Nerves,Vagus, Nervus
D019462	Syncope, Vasovagal	Loss of consciousness due to a reduction in blood pressure that is associated with an increase in vagal tone and peripheral vasodilation.	Syncope, Neurocardiogenic,Syncope, Neurogenic,Syncope, Vasodepressor,Neurally Mediated Faint,Syncope, Cerebral,Syncope, Malignant Neurocardiogenic,Syncope, Supine,Syncope, Vasovagal, Neurally-Mediated,Cerebral Syncope,Cerebral Syncopes,Faint, Neurally Mediated,Faints, Neurally Mediated,Malignant Neurocardiogenic Syncope,Malignant Neurocardiogenic Syncopes,Neurally Mediated Faints,Neurocardiogenic Syncope,Neurocardiogenic Syncope, Malignant,Neurocardiogenic Syncopes,Neurocardiogenic Syncopes, Malignant,Neurogenic Syncope,Neurogenic Syncopes,Supine Syncope,Supine Syncopes,Syncopes, Cerebral,Syncopes, Malignant Neurocardiogenic,Syncopes, Neurocardiogenic,Syncopes, Neurogenic,Syncopes, Supine,Syncopes, Vasodepressor,Syncopes, Vasovagal,Vasodepressor Syncope,Vasodepressor Syncopes,Vasovagal Syncope,Vasovagal Syncopes