Why the study?
Does periodic thermal stimulation alter heart rate spectral power and respiratory sinus arrhythmia in term infants?
Population
25 term infants aged 1-7 days in quiet sleep
Design
Other
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May entrain heart rate in term infants; hypothesis-generating for nonspecific brainstem origins of low-frequency oscillations.
Does periodic thermal stimulation alter heart rate spectral power and respiratory sinus arrhythmia in term infants?
Periodic thermal stimulation entrains heart rate in term infants, suggesting that low-frequency heart rate oscillations may be a nonspecific feature of brain stem integrative processes rather than solely related to thermoregulation.
Hathorn et al. (1995) studied this question.
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