Lately, growing attention in the health sciences has been paid to the dynamics of heart rate as indicator of impending failures and for prognoses. Likewise, in social and cognitive sciences, heart rate is increasingly employed as a measure of arousal, emotional engagement and as a marker of interpersonal coordination. However, there is no consensus about which measurements and analytical tools ...

This paper present an electrocardiogram (ECG) beat classification method based on waveform similarity and RR interval. The purpose of the method is to classify six types of heart beats (normal beat, atrial premature beat, paced beat, premature ventricular beat, left bundle branch block beat and right bundle branch block beat). The electrocardiogram signal is first denoised using wavelet transfo...

1. The heart and the oesophagus have similar sensory pathways, and sensations originating from the oesophagus are often difficult to differentiate from those of cardiac origin. We hypothesized that oesophageal sensory stimuli could alter neurocardiac function through autonomic reflexes elicited by these oesophageal stimuli. In the present study, we examined the neurocardiac response to oesophag...

ONE OF THE MOST remarkable phenomena of nature is the incessant rhythmic action of the heart. Although physicians and philosophers have proposed theories to explain the heart beat for centuries, its mechanism remained elusive until a century ago, when a group of young physiologists working with Michael Foster in England unraveled the mystery through a series of elegant experiments. Critical ins...

Previous studies of the beat-to-beat regulation of left ventricular performance in the intact cardiovascular system have shown that the performance of the left ventricle on any one beat is influenced by the mechanical events of the previous beat, so-called previous beat contraction history. The general hypothesis investigated in this study is that previous beat contraction history occurs becaus...