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41
Citations
8648
World Ranking
7809
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4193

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1978 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Paul A. Obrist was affiliated with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the United States throughout their academic career.

The scientist was recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1978.

There is no available information on specific recent papers, co-authors, publication venues, book publications, main fields of study, subfields, or main topics of work.

Best Publications

  • The Cardiovascular-Behavioral Interaction—As It Appears Today

    Paul A. Obrist

  • The Relationship Among Heart Rate, Carotid dP/dt, and Blood Pressure in Humans as a Function of the Type of Stress

    Paul A. Obrist;Claude J. Gaebelein;Emily S. Teller;Alan W. Langer

  • The cardiac-somatic relationship: some reformulations.

    Paul A. Obrist;Roger A. Webb;James R. Sutterer;James L. Howard

  • Evaluation of beta-adrenergic influences on cardiovascular and metabolic adjustments to physical and psychological stress.

    Andrew Sherwood;Michael T. Allen;Paul A. Obrist;Alan W. Langer

  • HEART RATE AND SOMATIC CHANGES DURING AVERSIVE CONDITIONING AND A SIMPLE REACTION TIME TASK

    Paul A. Obrist;Roger A. Webb;James R. Sutterer

  • Psychological stress induces sodium and fluid retention in men at high risk for hypertension.

    Kathleen C. Light;John P. Koepke;Paul A. Obrist;Park W. Willis

  • Publication Guidelines for Heart Rate Studies in Man

    J. Richard Jennings;W. Keith Bberg;J. Stanford Hutcheson;Paul Obrist

  • HEART RATE DURING CONDITIONING IN HUMANS: EFFECTS OF UCS INTENSITY, VAGAL BLOCKADE, AND ADRENERGIC BLOCK OF VASOMOTOR ACTIVITY.

    Paul A. Obrist;Donald M. Wood;Mario Perez-Reyes

  • Task difficulty, heart rate reactivity, and cardiovascular responses to an appetitive reaction time task.

    Kathleen C. Light;Paul A. Obrist

  • Cardiovascular Response to Stress: Effects of Opportunity to Avoid, Shock Experience, and Performance Feedback

    Kathleen C. Light;Paul A. Obrist

  • Sympathetic Influences on Cardiac Rate and Contractility During Acute Stress in Humans

    Paul A. Obrist;James E. Lawler;James L. Howard;Kenneth W. Smithson

  • Pulse Transit Time: Relationship to Blood Pressure and Myocardial Performance

    Paul A. Obrist;Kathleen C. Light;James A. McCubbin;J. Stanford Hutcheson

  • Effects of race and marginally elevated blood pressure on responses to stress

    K C Light;P A Obrist;A Sherwood;S A James

  • Cardiovascular Responses to Stress: I. Measures of Myocardial Response and Relationship to High Resting Systolic Pressure and Parental Hypertension

    Paul A. Obrist;Kathleen C. Light;Sherman A. James;David S. Strogatz

  • Portable automated blood pressure monitoring apparatus and method

    J. Stanford Hutcheson;Richard W. Lutz;Paul A. Obrist;David J. Flaugher

  • CARDIAC DECELERATION AND REACTION TIME: AN EVALUATION OF TWO HYPOTHESES

    Paul A. Obrist;Roger A. Webb;James R. Sutterer;James L. Howard

  • Parental hypertension and cardiovascular response to stress in healthy young adults.

    Janice L. Hastrup;Kathleen C. Light;Paul A. Obrist

  • Evaluation of Myocardial and Peripheral Vascular Responses During Reaction Time, Mental Arithmetic, and Cold Pressor Tasks

    Michael T. Allen;Paul A. Obrist;Andrew Sherwood;Michael D. Growell

  • Heart rate and somatic-motor coupling during classical aversive conditioning in humans.

    Paul A. Obrist

  • Aortic-radial pulse transit time and ECG Q-wave to radial pulse wave interval as indices of beat-by-beat blood pressure change.

    Michael H. Pollak;Paul A. Obrist

  • Pulse transit time: Relationship to blood pressure and myocardial performance

    P. A. Obrist;K. C. Light;J. A. McCubbin

Frequent Co-Authors

J. Richard Jennings
J. Richard Jennings University of Pittsburgh
Stephen W. Porges
Stephen W. Porges Indiana University

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