1. Yang AC , Hseu SS, Yien HW*. Prediction of paroxysmal atrial fibrillation by footprint analysis. Computers in Cardiology 28:401-404 (2001). [PDF]
2. Yang AC , Chang CH, Hseu SS, Yien HW* . Simulating healthy humans heart rate: a Markovian model. Computers in Cardiology 29:229-232 (2002). [PDF]
3. Yang AC , Hseu SS, Yien HW*, Goldberger AL, Peng CK. Linguistic analysis of human heartbeats using frequency and rank order statistics. Physical Review Letters 90:108103 (2003). [PDF]
4. Yang AC *, Hseu SS, Yien HW, Goldberger AL, Peng CK. Reply: Comment on Linguistic analysis of human heartbeats using frequency and rank order statistics. Physical Review Letters 92:109802 (2003). [PDF]
5. Peng CK*, Yang AC , Goldberger AL. Statistical physics approach to categorize biologic signals: from heart rate dynamics to DNA sequences. Chaos 17: 015115 (2007). [PDF]
6. Yang AC *, Tsai SJ, Hong CJ , Hsieh CH, Liu ME, Yang CH. Association between heart rate variability and cognitive function in elderly community-dwelling men without dementia: a preliminary report. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 56( 5):958-60 (2008). [PDF]
7. Cheng D, Tsai SJ, Hong CJ, Yang AC .* Reduced physiologic complexity of heart rate dynamics in healthy elderly men with APOE ε4 allele. PLoS ONE 4(11):e7733 (2009). [PDF]
8. Yang AC *, Chen TJ, Tsai SJ, Hong CJ, Kuo CH, Yang CH, Kao KP.* BDNF Val66Met polymorphism alters sympathovagal balance in healthy subjects. American Journal of Medical Genetics B 153B(5):1024-30 ( 2010) . [PDF]
9. Yang AC , Hong CJ, Tsai SJ.* Heart rate variability in psychiatric disorders. Taiwanese Journal of Psychiatry 24:99-109 (2010). [PDF]
10. Yang AC *, Hong CJ, Kuo CH , Chen TJ, Yang CH, Li C, Tsai SJ. Profiling objective sleep quality in a healthy Taiwanese sample using a novel electrocardiogram-based cardiopulmonary coupling analysis. Taiwanese Journal of Psychiatry, 24: 201-09 (2010). [PDF]
11. Yang AC *, Yang CH, Hong CJ, Tsai SH, Kuo CH, Peng CK, Mietus JE, Goldberger AL, Thomas RJ. Sleep state instabilities in major depression: detection and quantification with an Electrocardiogram-based spectrogram method. Psychophysiology 48 :285-291 (2011). [PDF]
12. Yang AC *, Tsai SJ, Yang CH, Kuo CH, Chen TJ, Hong CJ.* Reduced physiologic complexity is associated with poor sleep in patients with major depression and primary insomnia. Journal of Affective Disorders 131:179-185 (2011 ). [PDF]
13. Yang AC*, Tsai SJ*, Hong CJ, Wang C, Chen TJ, Liou YJ, Peng CK. Clustering heart rate dynamics is associated with β-adrenergic receptor polymorphisms: analysis by information-based similarity index. PLoS ONE 6(5): e19232 (2011 ). [PDF]
14. Ko FY, Yang AC , Tsai SJ, Zhou Y, Xu LM*. Physiologic and laboratory correlates of depression, anxiety, and poor sleep in liver cirrhosis. BMC Gastroenterology 13:18 (2013). [PDF]
15. Lin YH, Ho YC, Lin SH, Yeh SH, Liu CY, Kuo TBJ, Yang CC, Yang AC* . On-Call Duty Effects on Sleep-State Physiological Stability in Male Medical Interns. PLoS ONE 8(6): e65072. [PDF]
16. Chen SP, Yang AC (co-first author), Fuh JL, Wang SJ. Autonomic dysfunction in reversible cerebral vasoconstriction syndromes. J Headache Pain. 25;14(1):94 (2013). [ Abstract ]
17. Chung MS, Yang AC (co-first author), Lin YC, Lin CN, Chang FR, Shen SH, Ouyang WC, Loh EW, Chiu HJ*. Association of altered cardiac autonomic function with psychopathology and metabolic profiles in schizophrenia. Psychiatry Research 30;210(3):710-5 (2013). [Abstract]
18. Lu DY, Yang AC, Cheng HM, Lu TM, Yu WC, Chen CH, Sung SH. Heart Rate Variability Is Associated with Exercise Capacity in Patients with Cardiac Syndrome X. PLoS One. 2016 Jan 26;11(1):e0144935. [Full text]