This paper outlines the development and hardware software integration of an instrumental setup designed towards the real-time assessment of the affective status of a computer user. This assessment is based on the measurement and digital signal analysis of three physiological variables that reflect dynamic changes of the Autonomic Nervous System (ANS): Blood Volume Pulse (BVP) measured with an i...

CONTEXT With the current globalization of the world's economy and demands for enhanced performance, stress is present universally. Life's stressful events and daily stresses cause both deleterious and cumulative effects on the human body. The practice of meditation might offer a way to relieve that stress. OBJECTIVE The research team intended to study the effects of meditation on stress-induc...

The present study was planned to investigate the effects of Anuloma-viloma and specific yogic asanas in Premenstrual syndrome (PMS). The study group comprised of 60 females suffering from PMS between the age group of 18- 40 years, having 28-34 days regular menstrual cycle, further subdivided into 3 groups having equal number (n = 20) of subjects-group A (no intervention), group B (Anuloma-vilom...

conclusion in breast cancer after nac, the lesion t2 relaxation time was reduced in the responders, and this finding is potentially useful to assess the response to nac. results in 26 cases with nac, the mean lesion t2 relaxation time before nac was 81.34 ± 13.68 ms, compared with 64.50 ± 8.71 ms after nac. significant differences in the lesion t2 relaxation times existed between the pre- and p...

Ambulatory skin conductance as we see it now emerging on the market with products like the Affectiva Qsensor and the Basis B1, was promoted already in 1997 by Picard and Healey [1]. Also prototype devices such as the Empatica E3, the Smartband, and the Philips DTI-2 ([3] and figure 1) typically measure skin conductance at the base of the wrist, since this is a convenient measurement position. H...