"This volume contains the contributions to a Satellite Symposium of the XXXI In ternational Congress of Physiological Sciences in Espoo, Helsinki, Finland, July 15-17,1989. The general purpose of this Symposium was to bring together specialists from different fields of physiology who work on systems that are closely linked function ally with regard to behavioral adaptation. In a certain sense it represents a contin uation of two forme ..."
"Hans-Peter Koepchen, Timo Huopaniemi. Methods The methodology used in our
laboratory, simply stated, aims at quantifying the ... After suitable amplification,
the ECG is fed through an analog-to-digital (A/D) converter to the mass memory
of a computer. Then the individual R-waves, with the peak as the fiducial point,
are sequentially determined, and the series of R-R intervals (T1, T2, T3,. . . T.) is
stored in the memory as a func ..."