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Masa Ieda1, Tsuyoshi Miyaoka, Rei Wake, Kristian Liaury, Keiko Tsuchie, Michiyo Fukushima, Tomoko Araki, Satoko Ezoe, Takuji Inagaki, Jun Horiguchi.
Abstract
Several researches indicate that autonomic nervous system (ANS) dysfunction in patients with schizophrenia. Recently, salivary alpha-amylase (sAA) has been employed as a useful marker for ANS function. We investigated the extent of ANS dysfunction by measuring sAA and heart rate variability (HRV) of 25 patients with schizophrenia compared with controls. Schizophrenia group demonstrated a significant increase in sAA and markedly lower parasympathetic nervous system (PNS) activity in the HRV. However, there were no significant differences between two groups in sympathetic nervous system (SNS) activity. We concluded that PNS might be suppressed and the SNS shows relatively high activity in schizophrenia.Entities:
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Year: 2013 PMID: 23645102 DOI: 10.1007/s00406-013-0411-6
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci ISSN: 0940-1334 Impact factor: 5.270