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Behavioral State and Cardiac Arrhythmias

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Clinical Physiology of Sleep

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experimental study of the influence of behavioral states such as sleep and wakefulness on susceptibility to cardiac arrhythmias constitutes an area in which notable advances have been made. This has been largely due to the development of well-defined behavioral models and to the evolution of quantitative methods for assessing myocardial electrical stability. The advent of improved pharmacological probes to factor out the effects of the various components of the nervous system and the refinement of selective denervation procedures have contributed further to elucidation of mechanisms.

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