Altered ultradian cortisol rhythmicity as a potential neurobiologic substrate for chronic insomnia

I Vargas, AN Vgontzas, JL Abelson, RT Faghih… - Sleep medicine …, 2018 - Elsevier
Chronic insomnia is highly prevalent and associated with significant morbidity (ie, confers
risk for multiple psychiatric and medical disorders, such as depression and hypertension) …

A novel multi-innovation gradient support vector machine regression method

H Ma, F Ding, Y Wang - ISA transactions, 2022 - Elsevier
For the regression problem of support vector machine, the solution processes of the most
existing methods use offline datasets, which cannot be realized online. For this problem, this …

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 …

Sparse deconvolution of electrodermal activity via continuous-time system identification

MR Amin, RT Faghih - IEEE Transactions on Biomedical …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Objective: Electrodermal activity (EDA) indicates different eccrine sweat gland activity
caused by the stimulation of the autonomic nervous system. Recovering the number …

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 Bayesian filtering approach for tracking arousal from binary and continuous skin conductance features

DS Wickramasuriya, RT Faghih - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Objective: Neuroanatomical structures within the cortical and sub-cortical brain regions
process emotion and cause subsequent variations in signals such as skin conductance and …

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 …

Tonic and phasic decomposition of skin conductance data: A generalized-cross-validation-based block coordinate descent approach

MR Amin, RT Faghih - … Conference of the IEEE Engineering in …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Salty sweat secretions in the epidermis change the skin's electrical activity resulting in the
measured skin conductance signal. While the relatively fast variation of skin conductance (ie …

State-space modeling and fuzzy feedback control of cognitive stress

HF Azgomi, DS Wickramasuriya… - 2019 41st Annual …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
“Distress” or a substantial amount of stress may decrease brain functionality and cause
neurological disorders. On the other hand, very low cognitive arousal may affect one's …