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Is heart rate variability associated with the severity of psychotic symptoms in patients with schizophrenia?
Is heart rate variability associated with the severity of psychotic symptoms in patients with schizophrenia?
Reduced heart rate variability is associated with greater severity of psychotic symptoms, particularly cognitive/disorganisation dimensions, in patients with schizophrenia.
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Hypothesis-generating for HRV as symptom-severity marker in schizophrenia; leaves open causal links and any clinical role pending prospective data.
Kim et al. (2011) studied this question.
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