Sympathetic skin response.

Sympathetic Skin Response in patients with major depressive disorders

Introduction: Major depressive disorder (MDD) is one of the most prevalent diseases of psychiatry. There is evidence that suggests the autonomic nervous system plays a role in depression. Sympathetic Skin Response (SSR) is used to evaluate the autonomic system. Nerve Conduction Study (NCS) evaluates peripheral thick myelinated fibers. In SSR we evaluate thin unmyelinated fibers. The purpose of ...

evaluation of sympathetic skin response in old-polio patients

sympathetic skin response and vasomotor symptoms in postmenopausal osteoporotic women

background: osteoporosis is a common disease characterized by reduction in bone mass, due to depletion of calcium and bone protein. a pivotal role of the sympathetic nervous system in bone remodeling has been considered. on the other hand, elevated central sympathetic activation in postmenopausal women is involved in the creation of vasomotor symptoms. also, sympathetic skin response (ssr) has ...

Inclusion of Height and Limb Length when Interpreting Sympathetic Skin Response

It is more than a decade since scientists are making use of sympathetic skin response (SSR) as a clinical and research method to evaluate sympathetic nervous system. A major portion of the efferent pathway of this response is composed of non-myelinated nerves. Thus, the latency of the response may be significantly different in normal individuals with different height and limb lengths. This stud...

Suppressed sympathetic skin response in brain infarction.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Autonomic failure is known to manifest commonly in stroke, but very little attention has been given to various features of sympathetic dysfunction such as sudomotor dysregulation in cerebrovascular diseases. In the present study, our purpose was to assess quantitatively sympathetic reflex activity in brain infarction by measuring the sympathetic skin response. METHODS W...