Reconsiderations about the clinical importance of the sympathetic skin response.
Over the last few years, neurologists have been showing increasing interest in the study of the sympathetic skin response (SSR). In the present report we describe a simple method that permitted us to determine a wide variation of SSR in response to different stimuli such as respiration, deglutition, blinking, skeletal movements, biting, auditory or light stimuli, vocalization, and sphincter contraction. These results raise doubts about the role of SSR as a complementary diagnostic method.
Resende
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Department of Neurology and Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine of Botucatu, UNESP, Brazil.
Matarazzo
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Kimaid
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Silva
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MD
D000161:Acoustic Stimulation; D000328:Adult; D001767:Blinking / Q000502:physiology; D003679:Deglutition / Q000502:physiology; D005260:Female; D005712:Galvanic Skin Response / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009068:Movement / Q000502:physiology; D009119:Muscle Contraction; D018482:Muscle, Skeletal / Q000502:physiology; D010699:Phonation / Q000502:physiology; D010775:Photic Stimulation; D012119:Respiration / Q000502:physiology; D013564:Sympathetic Nervous System / Q000502:physiology*