Perfeziona i miei risultati

Delaying orthostatic syncope with mental challenge: A pilot study

Goswami, Nandu ; Roessler, Andreas ; Szalkay, Helmut Hinghofer ; Montani, Jean Pierre ; Steptoe, Andrew

In: Physiology & Behavior, 2012, vol. 106, no. 4, p. 569–573

At orthostatic vasovagal syncope there appears to be a sudden decline of sympathetic activity. As mental challenge activates the sympathetic system, we hypothesized that doing mental arithmetic in volunteers driven to the end point of their cardiovascular stability may delay the onset of orthostatic syncope. We investigated this in healthy male subjects. Each subject underwent a head up tilt...