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Handbook of Clinical Neurology, Vol. 117 (3rd series) Autonomic Nervous System R.M. Buijs and D.F. Swaab, Editors ? 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reservedChapter 31 Heart rate variabilityIWONA CYGANKIEWICZ1* AND WOJCIECH ZAREBA2 1Department of Electrocardiology, Medical University of Lodz, Lodz, Poland 2Heart Research Follow-up Program, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, USAINTRODUCTION Heart rate variability (HRV) reflects beat-to-beat changes in RR intervals, which are related to the ongoing interplay between two arms of the autonomic nervous system (Task Force, 1996; Kle