Habituation of Skin Conductance Responses in Patients with Anxiety States
نویسندگان
چکیده
Habituation of the GSR responses obtained from a group of 20 patients sufferings from anxiety states was compared with a group of 20 matched normals, selected for lack of anxiety. Habituation parameter did differentiate the two groups very distinctly, where very fast habituation WP.S noted in the normals. Findings were interpreted in terms of the level of arousal of the patients/subjects tested.
منابع مشابه
Comparison of buspirone with diazepam and fluvoxamine on aversive classical conditioning in humans.
The effects of buspirone, fluvoxamine and diazepam were investigated, using healthy volunteers, in an aversive conditioning paradigm, a putative model for conditioned anxiety. The main prediction was that buspirone, an anxiolytic agent which reduces activity in serotonin (5-hydroxytryptophan, 5-HT) neurones, would attenuate aversively conditioned skin conductance responses. Skin conductance res...
متن کاملHabituation and conditioning of electrodermal responses in high risk children.
Measures of skin conductance during rest and during experiments testing habituation and conditioning of the skin conductance response were obtained from 42 10-year-old male children, of whom 12 were at risk for schizophrenia and 30 constituted low risk controls. While typical habituation curves for skin conductance response were obtained from both sets of offspring, no differences were found be...
متن کاملExaggerated electrodermal startle responses after intracardiac shock discharges in patients with implanted cardioverter defibrillators.
OBJECTIVE We studied whether repetitive intracardiac shock discharges of implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) provoke an enduring enhancement of startle responses. METHODS The study population comprised 134 patients with an ICD. Among those, 67 patients had experienced shock delivery. Thirty-five patients had received five or more shocks. We used the startle reflex paradigm, which c...
متن کاملرابطه کمال‌گرایی و سخت‌کوشی با پاسخ‌های فیزیولوژیک ناشی از استرس
The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship of two personality constructs, perfectionism and hardiness, to physiological responses under a stressful situation. One hundred undergraduate students (51 males, 49 females) from the Faculty of Psychology and Education, University of Tehran were included in this study. All participants were asked to complete Farsi version of the Positive...
متن کاملBRIEF REPORT Neuroticism is associated with larger and more prolonged electrodermal responses to emotionally evocative pictures
Elevated neuroticism is associated with increased psychological reactivity to stressors. Research on individual differences and physiological reactivity (e.g., electrodermal activity), however, has focused on clinical samples andmeasures of basal activity (e.g., nonspecific skin conductance responses) or responses to nonaffective stimuli. Surprisingly, there is a dearth of work on physiological...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
عنوان ژورنال:
دوره 23 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1981