Wearable Devices Communicate Vital Brain Activity Information
From: Wireless Design Magazine - 05/23/2017

Rosalind Picard, ScD, FIEEE and her team at MIT pioneered the use of wearable
technology to recognize changes in human emotion. They have made several new
discoveries, including that autonomic activity measured through a sweat
response is not as general as previously thought, and carries more specific
information related to different kinds of brain activity.

"The skin is purely innervated by the sympathetic branch of the autonomic
nervous system," said Picard. "We can observe increases in sympathetic brain
activation by monitoring subtle electrical changes across the surface of the
skin."

Sympathetic activation occurs when experiencing excitement or stress, whether
physical, emotional, or cognitive.

Read the entire article at:
https://www.wirelessdesignmag.com/news/2017/05/wearable-devices-communicate-vital-brain-activity-information
https://www.mdtmag.com/news/2017/05/wearable-devices-communicate-vital-brain-activity-information

Links:
Rosalind Picard
http://web.media.mit.edu/~picard
https://www.media.mit.edu/people/picard/overview

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