Epilepsy Research
Volume 30, Issue 1 , Pages 77-83 , March 1998

Heart rate variability in patients with epilepsy1

  • Torbjörn Tomson

      Affiliations

    • Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Division of Neurology, Karolinska Hospital, S-171 76 Stockholm, Sweden
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author.
    • ,
  • Mats Ericson

      Affiliations

    • Department of Environmental Technology and Work Science, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
    • ,
  • Christina Ihrman

      Affiliations

    • Department of Clinical Physiology, Söder Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
    • ,
  • Lars Erik Lindblad

      Affiliations

    • Department of Clinical Physiology, Söder Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

Received 11 September 1997 ,Accepted 3 November 1997.

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