Sympathetic nervous system activity in stress and biofeedback relaxation.

Sympathetic nervous system activity in stress and biofeedback relaxation.

This article describes several studies on the measurement of slow rhythms in the heart and in peripheral vasculature and their relationship to stress and relaxation. These studies are preliminary steps in an attempt to quantify stress and relaxation. Mental stress is a major, well-documented factor...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:IEEE Engineering in medicine and biology magazine 24, 2 (2005).
Main Author: Shusterman, V.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Biofeedback relaxation.
Blood vessel.
Cardiovascular diseases.
Coronary artery disease.
Diagnostic tools.
Heart-rate variability.
Low pass filtering.
Mental stress.
Peripheral vasculature.
Peripheral vasomotor activity.
Photoplethysmography.
Pressure-wave envelope.
Screening tools.
Skin temperature variability.
Slow heart rhythms.
Sympathetic nervous system activity.
Thermal-transfer function.
Vasculature.