title: The evaporimeter and emotional sweating in the neonate.
abstract: Emotional sweating from the palm of the hand occurs from birth in the term infant and can be conveniently measured with a skin evaporimeter. Such measurements provide objective information about an infant's state of arousal that might be useful to neonatologists and psychologists who are interested in studying stress and its modification in the newborn.
mesh_terms: D004582:Electronics, Medical; D004644:Emotions / Q000502:physiology*; D006225:Hand; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007234:Infant, Premature; D010500:Perinatology / Q000295:instrumentation; D013546:Sweating; D014870:Water Loss, Insensible