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Comment
. 2014 Jan 1:84:122-3.
doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.08.030. Epub 2013 Aug 27.

Sympathetic nerve activity can be estimated from skin conductance responses - a comment on Henderson et al. (2012)

Dominik R Bach  1
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Sympathetic nerve activity can be estimated from skin conductance responses - a comment on Henderson et al. (2012)

Dominik R Bach. Neuroimage. .

Abstract

A recent paper by Henderson et al. (2012) claimed that skin sympathetic nerve activity (SSNA) can not be retrieved from skin conductance responses (SCR). Here, I argue that this claim is not supported by the literature, and comment on contemporary approaches of estimating SSNA from SCR using biophysical models.

Keywords: Biophysical model; EDA; Electrodermal activity; GSR; Galvanic skin response; Mathematical model; SCR; SSNA; Skin conductance responses; Skin sympathetic nerve activity; Sympathetic arousal.

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