Pulse Amplitudes from electrodermal activity collected from healthy volunteer subjects at rest and under controlled sedation

This dataset of electrodermal activity was collected from 11 healthy volunteersubjects who were awake and at rest in seated position and 11 differenthealthy volunteers who were under controlled propofol sedation. For the awakeand at rest subjects, the activity was recorded from each subject's non-dominant hand for one hour at 256 Hz. For the controlled propofol sedationsubjects, the activity was recorded from each subject's left hand for about3-4 hours at 500 Hz. From the raw data, EDA pulses were extracted and thepulse times and amplitudes reported. Electrodermal activity measures changingelectrical conductance of the skin as an indicator of sweat gland activity.Sweat glands are a primitive part of the fight-or-flight response. These datawere collected as part of a larger study to understand and build computationalmodels for autonomic nervous system activity (including electrodermalactivity) with approval from the Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyCommittee on the Use of Humans as Experimental Subjects (COUHES) and theMassachusetts General Hospital Human Research Committee.