Physiological characterization of electrodermal activity enables scalable near real-time autonomic nervous system activation inference

R Amin, RT Faghih - PLoS computational biology, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Electrodermal activities (EDA) are any electrical phxenomena observed on the skin. Skin
conductance (SC), a measure of EDA, shows fluctuations due to autonomic nervous system …

Regulation of brain cognitive states through auditory, gustatory, and olfactory stimulation with wearable monitoring

H Fekri Azgomi, LR F. Branco, MR Amin, S Khazaei… - Scientific reports, 2023 - nature.com
Inspired by advances in wearable technologies, we design and perform human-subject
experiments. We aim to investigate the effects of applying safe actuation (ie, auditory …

Identification of sympathetic nervous system activation from skin conductance: A sparse decomposition approach with physiological priors

MR Amin, RT Faghih - IEEE Transactions on Biomedical …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Objective: Sweat secretions lead to variations in skin conductance (SC) signal. The relatively
fast variation of SC, called the phasic component, reflects sympathetic nervous system …

Skin conductance as a viable alternative for closing the deep brain stimulation loop in neuropsychiatric disorders

DS Wickramasuriya, MR Amin, RT Faghih - Frontiers in neuroscience, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Markers from local field potentials, neurochemicals, skin conductance, and hormone
concentrations have been proposed as a means of closing the loop in Deep Brain …

A marked point process filtering approach for tracking sympathetic arousal from skin conductance

DS Wickramasuriya, RT Faghih - IEEE Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Human emotion represents a complex neural process within the brain. The ability to
automatically recognize emotions from physiological signals has the potential to impact …

A mixed filter algorithm for sympathetic arousal tracking from skin conductance and heart rate measurements in Pavlovian fear conditioning

DS Wickramasuriya, RT Faghih - PloS one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Pathological fear and anxiety disorders can have debilitating impacts on individual patients
and society. The neural circuitry underlying fear learning and extinction has been known to …

Closed-loop cognitive stress regulation using fuzzy control in wearable-machine interface architectures

HF Azgomi, I Cajigas, RT Faghih - IEEE Access, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Keeping cognitive stress at a healthy range can improve the overall quality of life: helping
subjects to decrease their high levels of arousal, which will make them relaxed, and elevate …

Decoding a neurofeedback-modulated cognitive arousal state to investigate performance regulation by the yerkes-dodson law

S Khazaei, MR Amin, RT Faghih - 2021 43rd Annual …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Enhancing the productivity of humans by regulating arousal during cognitive tasks is a
challenging topic in psychology that has a great potential to transform workplaces for …

A wearable exam stress dataset for predicting grades using physiological signals

MR Amin, DS Wickramasuriya… - 2022 IEEE Healthcare …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The study of psychological stress in real-world scenarios presents several challenges.
Consequently, datasets available to researchers are also scarce. The aim of our study is to …

Robust inference of autonomic nervous system activation using skin conductance measurements: A multi-channel sparse system identification approach

MDR Amin, RT Faghih - IEEE Access, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The autonomic nervous system (ANS) stimulates various sweat glands for maintaining body
temperature as well as in response to various psychological events. Variations in skin …