Psychiatry Research
Volume 179, Issue 2 , Pages 187-193 , 30 September 2010

Reduced autonomic flexibility as a predictor for future anxiety in girls from the general population: The TRAILS study

  • Kirstin Greaves-Lord

      Affiliations

    • Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam, Sophia Children's Hospital, Dr. Molewaterplein 60, 3015 GJ, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam, Sophia Children's Hospital, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Postbus 2060, 3000 CB Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Tel.: +31 10 7037005; fax: +31 10 7036803.
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  • Joke Tulen

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam, ‘s Gravendijkwal 230, 3015 CE, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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  • Andrea Dietrich

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry and Graduate School of Behavioral and Cognitive Neurosciences, University of Groningen, P.O. Box 196, 9700 AD, Groningen, The Netherlands
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  • Frouke Sondeijker

      Affiliations

    • Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam, Sophia Children's Hospital, Dr. Molewaterplein 60, 3015 GJ, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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  • Arie van Roon

      Affiliations

    • Vascular Laboratory of Internal Medicine, P.O. Box 30 001, 9700 RB, Groningen, The Netherlands
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  • Albertine Oldehinkel

      Affiliations

    • Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam, Sophia Children's Hospital, Dr. Molewaterplein 60, 3015 GJ, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
    • Department of Psychiatry and Graduate School of Behavioral and Cognitive Neurosciences, University of Groningen, P.O. Box 196, 9700 AD, Groningen, The Netherlands
    • Graduate School for Experimental Psychopathology, P.O. Box 30 001, 9700 RB, Groningen, The Netherlands
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  • Johan Ormel

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry and Graduate School of Behavioral and Cognitive Neurosciences, University of Groningen, P.O. Box 196, 9700 AD, Groningen, The Netherlands
    • Vascular Laboratory of Internal Medicine, P.O. Box 30 001, 9700 RB, Groningen, The Netherlands
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  • Frank Verhulst

      Affiliations

    • Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam, Sophia Children's Hospital, Dr. Molewaterplein 60, 3015 GJ, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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  • Anja Huizink

      Affiliations

    • Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam, Sophia Children's Hospital, Dr. Molewaterplein 60, 3015 GJ, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
    • Department of Psychiatry and Graduate School of Behavioral and Cognitive Neurosciences, University of Groningen, P.O. Box 196, 9700 AD, Groningen, The Netherlands
    • Department of Education, Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences, University of Amsterdam, Nieuwe Prinsengracht 130, 1018 VZ, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Received 5 September 2008 ,Revised 20 April 2009 ,Accepted 20 April 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2009.04.014

Psychiatry Research
Volume 179, Issue 2 , Pages 187-193 , 30 September 2010

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