Developmental milestones of the autonomic nervous system revealed via longitudinal monitoring of fetal heart rate variability

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 13; no. 7; p. e0200799
• Main Authors: Schneider, Uwe, Bode, Franziska, Schmidt, Alexander, Nowack, Samuel, Rudolph, Anja, Doelcker, Eva-Maria, Schlattmann, Peter, Götz, Theresa, Hoyer, Dirk
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 17.07.2018; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Amplitudes; Analysis; Arrhythmia; Autonomic nervous system; Biology and Life Sciences; Cardiac arrhythmia; Complexity; Electric power distribution; Fetuses; Gestation; Gestational age; Health aspects; Heart rate; Medical electronics; Medical statistics; Medicine and Health Sciences; Monitoring; Nervous system; Neurology; Observational studies; Obstetrics; Organisms; Parameters; Parasympathetic nervous system; Physical Sciences; Physiology; Pregnancy; Sinuses; Skewness; Sleep; Studies; Temporal resolution; Variability; Well being; Germany

Fetal heart rate variability (fHRV) of normal-to-normal (NN) beat intervals provides high-temporal resolution access to assess the functioning of the autonomic nervous system (ANS). To determine critical periods of fetal autonomic maturation. The developmental pace is hypothesized to change with ges...