The Effect of Mental States on Blood Pressure and Electrocardiogram

Author

Singh, Hari ; Singla, Rajesh ; Jha, R.

Author_Institution

Dept. of ICE, Nat. Inst. of Technol., Jalandhar, India

fYear

2009

fDate

11-13 June 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

This paper describes the effect of mental states on blood pressure and electrocardiogram (ECG). Blood pressure and ECG were recorded before and during four types of mental task. The mental task involved the four tasks that encompassed motor action (MA), Thoughts (TH), memory related (MR) and emotions (EM). Blood pressure and ECG were recorded using BIOPAC system. These variables were analyzed using BIOPAC acknowledge software. In MA and TH tasks, significant changes were observed in blood pressure, although during MR and EM tasks there were no significant changes in it. The present study demonstrated the changes in ECG during MR and EM tasks. But there were no significant changes in ECG during MA and TH tasks.

Keywords

blood pressure measurement; electrocardiography; medical signal processing; neurophysiology; BIOPAC acknowledge software; blood pressure recording; electrocardiogram; emotion task; encompassed motor action; memory related task; mental state effect; Biomedical measurements; Biomedical monitoring; Blood pressure; Electrocardiography; Ice; Information processing; Laboratories; Pressure measurement; Signal processing; Smoothing methods;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering , 2009. ICBBE 2009. 3rd International Conference on

Conference_Location

Beijing

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2901-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2902-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICBBE.2009.5163600

Filename

5163600