Galvanic Skin Response

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • Amygdala-prefrontal cortex functional connectivity during threat-induced anxiety and goal distraction. 
  • Association between hot flashes, sleep complaints, and psychological functioning among healthy menopausal women. 
  • Behavioral assessment of narcotic detoxification fear. 
  • Brain activity associated with omission of an aversive event reveals the effects of fear learning and generalization. 
  • Conceptual similarity promotes generalization of higher order fear learning. 
  • Delayed extinction attenuates conditioned fear renewal and spontaneous recovery in humans. 
  • Development and validation of an unsupervised scoring system (Autonomate) for skin conductance response analysis. 
  • Effect of health-related stereotypes on physiological responses of hypertensive middle-aged and older men. 
  • Effects of discrimination training on fear generalization gradients and perceptual classification in humans. 
  • Effects of unexpected changes in visual scenes on the human acoustic startle response and prepulse inhibition. 
  • Effects of virtual environment platforms on emotional responses. 
  • Emotional antecedents of hot flashes during daily life. 
  • Emotional learning during dissociative states in borderline personality disorder. 
  • Extinction learning alters the neural representation of conditioned fear. 
  • Generalization of conditioned fear along a dimension of increasing fear intensity. 
  • Latent inhibition in the conditioned electrodermal response. 
  • Meclizine enhancement of sensorimotor gating in healthy male subjects with high startle responses and low prepulse inhibition. 
  • Medial prefrontal pathways for the contextual regulation of extinguished fear in humans. 
  • Multivariate pattern classification reveals autonomic and experiential representations of discrete emotions. 
  • Neocortical modulation of the amygdala response to fearful stimuli. 
  • Objective assessment of peritraumatic dissociation: psychophysiological indicators. 
  • Olfactory cue reactivity in nicotine-dependent adult smokers. 
  • Perinatal risk factors in the development of aggression and violence. 
  • Positive Association Between Nightmares and Heart Rate Response to Loud Tones: Relationship to Parasympathetic Dysfunction in PTSD Nightmares. 
  • Reinstatement of conditioned fear and the hippocampus: an attentional-associative model. 
  • Reinstatement of conditioned fear in humans is context dependent and impaired in amnesia. 
  • Reward-based decision making and electrodermal responding by young children with autism spectrum disorders during a gambling task. 
  • Role of conceptual knowledge in learning and retention of conditioned fear. 
  • Sex, stress, and fear: individual differences in conditioned learning. 
  • Spatial distancing reduces emotional arousal to reactivated memories. 
  • Spatial proximity amplifies valence in emotional memory and defensive approach-avoidance. 
  • The amygdala response to emotional stimuli: a comparison of faces and scenes. 
  • The relationship between autism symptoms and arousal level in toddlers with autism spectrum disorder, as measured by electrodermal activity. 
  • Time-varying Spectral Index of Electrodermal Activity to Predict Central Nervous System Oxygen Toxicity Symptoms in Divers: Preliminary results. 
  • Variability in emotional responsiveness and coping style during active avoidance as a window onto psychological vulnerability to stress. 
  • Wearable Devices in Clinical Trials: Hype and Hypothesis. 
  • Wearable sensors enable personalized predictions of clinical laboratory measurements. 
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  Keywords of People

  • LaBar, Kevin S., Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke Science & Society