Topic: electrodermal activity

Constant monitoring of behavioral patterns shapes successful social interactions. Factors such as interpersonal distance and emotional expressions prompt specific responses to facilitate functional social exchanges. Despite extensive research on these topics, studying how these features influence human physiological responses in an ecological yet controlled environment has often proven challenging. Moreover, the relation between a possible dysregulation of these physiological reactions and social anxiety remains unclear. Using a 3D virtual setting, we found increased physiological responses (

The sympathetic system reacts to affective states, resulting in electrodermal activity (EDA) changes. According to prior research, EDA could be associated with Bipolar Disorder (BD) mood episodes, but results remain inconclusive due to heterogeneous study design and the presence of cofounders. During sleep main confounders such as physical activity and marked temperature changes decrease. Therefore, we measured EDA with wearable devices during the day and night to explore whether EDA is a better biomarker of mood episodes during sleep. We analysed 140 participants from the TIMEBASE study, 102