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<FONT SIZE="+2"><B>Exaggerated Heart Rate Oscillations</B></FONT></DIV>
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C.-K. Peng, PhD, Joseph E. Mietus, BS, Yanhui Liu, MSc,
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Gurucharan Khalsa, PhD, Pamela S. Douglas, MD,
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Herbert Benson, MD, Ary L. Goldberger, MD
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From the Margret & H.A. Rey Laboratory for Nonlinear Dynamics in
Medicine, Cardiovascular Division, and the Mind/Body Medical Institute
of CareGroup, the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston,
Massachusetts; Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts; Center
for Polymer Studies and Department of Physics, Boston University,
Boston, Massachusetts.
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This article originally appeared in the <I><a
href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167527399000662"
target="other">International
Journal of Cardiology</a></I> <B>70:</B> 101-107, 1999. Please cite
this publication when referencing this material. Presentation of this
study and the supporting data has been made possible by grants from the
<a href="http://www.fetzer.org/" target="other">Fetzer Institute</a>, <a
href="http://www.nasa.gov/" target="other">National Aeronautics and Space
Administration</a>, <a href="http://www.nimh.nih.gov/" target="other">National
Institute of Mental Health</a>, and The G. Harold and Leila Y. Mathers
Charitable Foundation. <a href="meditation.ps">PostScript</a> and <a
href="meditation.pdf">PDF</a> versions are also available. The cardiac
inter-beat interval data on which this article is based may be found <a
href="data/">here</a>.
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