![]() ![]() Such equipment is not adapted to be carried about or worn on the person so that an individual may monitor his own stress levels at any given time.Īccordingly, it is an object of the present invention to provide a personal psychogalvanometer easily worn on the wrist of an individual and adapted to provide an output response by the act on the part of the subject of merely touching two spaced electrodes on a wrist-worn casing. While various types of instruments have been developed heretofore to measure changes in skin resistance, such instruments have been rather large, cumbersome and complex suitable for laboratory use and requiring various adjustments and the fitting of electrodes to the skin. A measurement of this change in skin resistance is useful not only in research but also to provide a physician, or the subject himself, with an indication of stress levels. ![]() A subject who has been exposed to a stressful situation will display a sudden drop in resistance between two areas of the skin. The change in skin resistance occurs as a result of autonomic activity which has been demonstrated to be generalized and not merely of local character. It is known that the electrical resistance in the skin of humans varies as a function of autonomic nervous system activity. This invention relates generally to biofeedback instruments and more particularly is directed towards a personal wrist worn device for conveniently measuring the galvanic skin resistance of the wearer as an indication of autonomic nervous system activity. ![]()
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