abstract background: labor pain is one of the most intense pains experienced by women. different factors including physiological, psychological, socio‑cultural, environmental, and personality‑related factors are relevant to perception of childbirth pain. the negative experience of pain causes mental, psychological problems and influences the relationship between the mother and infant. therefore...

In understanding the associations between emotional experience and physiological processes, time is a central variable.Most physiological processes are moving targets—they change from moment to moment and over the course of days, months, and years. Stress-sensitive physiological systems, such as the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis and the sympathetic nervous system, are in fact design...

We trained a model to distinguish an extreme high arousal, unpleasant drink from regular drinks based on range of implicit behavioral and physiological responses naturalistic tasting. The predicted arousal ratings drinks, highlighting the possibility estimate affective experience without having rely subjective ratings.

background & objectives: fasting in the month of ramadan has several positive effects on the emotional and mental state and improves happiness in the community. this study aimed to investigate the effects of fasting on the level of happiness in the general population. materials and methods: in this study, we used pretest-posttest analysis to evaluate the hypothesis, and the study population con...

Pain is a subjective experience commonly measured through patient’s self report. While there exist numerous situations in which automatic pain estimation methods may be preferred, inter-subject variability in physiological and behavioral pain responses has hindered the development of such methods. In this work, we address this problem by introducing a novel personalized multitask machine learni...

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INTRODUCTION Physiological birth is linked to the experience of pain. Our fear of pain and the disappearance of physiological birth is linked to our lifestyles. A frenetic pace, the pressure to be efficient, competition, the quest for success, the need for immediate gratification, refusal to suffer: all these factors leave little room for listening, feeling and assuming a proactive attitude in ...

In 1890, William James hypothesized that emotions are our perception of physiological changes. Many different theories of emotion have emerged since then, but it has been demonstrated that a specifically induced physiological state can influence an individual's emotional responses to stimuli. In the present study, auditory and/or vibrotactile heartbeat stimuli were presented to participants (N ...