People affected by bipolar disorders experience alternating states of depression with episodes of mania or hypomania. This mental can lead to a poor handling of daily routines, can worsen personal relationships, and often can be life-threatening. This preliminary study aims at investigating how the autonomic nervous system, in terms of electrodermal activity, responds to specific controlled emotional stimuli in bipolar patients. More specifically, we present here a method to deploy the analysis of ElectroDermal Activity (EDA) to discriminate clinical mood states. EDA was analyzed by using a deconvolution method to separate tonic from phasic components. The three subjects recruited and the experimental protocol used here is part of the European project PSYCHE. Preliminary results show that the bipolar mood states can be related to electrodermal tonic activity.
On the Deconvolution Analysis of Electrodermal Activity in Bipolar Patients / Greco A; LANATA', ANTONIO; VALENZA, GAETANO; Rota G; VANELLO, NICOLA; SCILINGO, ENZO PASQUALE. - (2012), pp. 6691-6694. (Intervento presentato al convegno 34th Annual International Conference of IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society tenutosi a San Diego, California, USA nel 28 August 2012 through 1 September 2012) [10.1109/EMBC.2012.6347529].
On the Deconvolution Analysis of Electrodermal Activity in Bipolar Patients
LANATA', ANTONIO;
2012
Abstract
People affected by bipolar disorders experience alternating states of depression with episodes of mania or hypomania. This mental can lead to a poor handling of daily routines, can worsen personal relationships, and often can be life-threatening. This preliminary study aims at investigating how the autonomic nervous system, in terms of electrodermal activity, responds to specific controlled emotional stimuli in bipolar patients. More specifically, we present here a method to deploy the analysis of ElectroDermal Activity (EDA) to discriminate clinical mood states. EDA was analyzed by using a deconvolution method to separate tonic from phasic components. The three subjects recruited and the experimental protocol used here is part of the European project PSYCHE. Preliminary results show that the bipolar mood states can be related to electrodermal tonic activity.
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