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Book Review: Electrodermal Responses: What Happens in the Brain

Wellcome Department of Imaging Neuroscience, Institute of Neurology, and Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, Queen Square, London, and Autonomic Unit, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, 12 Queen Square, London, h.critchley{at}fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk

Electrodermal activity (EDA) is now the preferred term for changes in electrical conductance of the skin, including phasic changes that have been referred to as galvanic skin responses (GSR), that result from sympathetic neuronal activity. EDA is a sensitive psychophysiological index of changes in autonomic sympathetic arousal that are integrated with emotional and cognitive states. Until recently there was little direct knowledge of brain mechanisms governing generation and control of EDA in humans. However, studies of patients with discrete brain lesions and, more recently, functional imaging techniques have clarified the contribution of brain regions implicated in emotion, attention, and cognition to peripheral EDA responses. Moreover, such studies enable an understanding of mechanisms by which states of bodily arousal, indexed by EDA, influence cognition and bias motivational behavior.

Key Words: Arousal • Autonomic • Electrodermal • Neuroimaging • Sympathetic activity

The Neuroscientist, Vol. 8, No. 2, 132-142 (2002)
DOI: 10.1177/107385840200800209


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