Sternal skin conductance

Validation of a sternal skin conductance criterion for measuring hot flashes in breast cancer patients.

OBJECTIVE This study aimed to establish the sternal skin conductance level (SCL) increase that would optimally detect hot flashes among breast cancer patients. METHODS Fifty-six women who had completed a similar treatment protocol for a first diagnosis of breast cancer within the previous 3 months wore an ambulatory sternal skin conductance device for one home-based daytime recording of hot f...

SKIN CONDUCTANCE 1 Using skin conductance in judgment and decision making research

Electrochemical Skin Conductance Correlates with Skin Nerve Fiber Density

PURPOSE Electrochemical skin conductance (ESC) using reverse iontophoresis and chronoamperometry has been used to evaluate abnormal function of small fibers. How ESC correlates with loss of small fibers in skin is unclear. METHODS This was a prospective, blinded study. The primary outcome measure was the correlation between ESC at the feet and results of skin biopsies including epidermal nerv...

Emotion Recognition from Electromyography and Skin Conductance

The evocation and detection of the user's emotional state is becoming a crucial element in the aim for developing more effective interfaces between humans and computers, especially in applications such as games and e-learning tools. In this paper, we describe a model that allows us to determine emotion in real time, based on Electromyography (EMG) and skin conductance. The developed emotion rec...

Interstimulus intervals for skin conductance response measurement.

This study examined, using the Concealed Information paradigm, whether interstimulus intervals (ISI) typically used for electrodermal measurement can be shortened. An ISI ranging from 16 s to 24 s (with a mean of 20 s) was compared with an ISI shortened by 50% using a within-participants design. It was demonstrated that this shortening had no effect on the differential skin conductance response...