Complexity of electrodermal activity to mental stress is changed during adolescent age-period.

Complexity characterizes behaviour of all physiological systems whose components interact in multiple ways usually quantified by entropy techniques. However, complexity analysis regarding electrodermal activity (EDA)-related sympathetic cholinergic nervous system is rare. Thus, we aimed to study EDA dynamics complexity changes from aspect of various embedding dimensions (m) and timescales (τ) (sample entropy (SampEn) with m ∈ <2,7>, and multiscale entropy (MSE) in τ ∈ <1,20>) in association with traditionally used EDA indices (skin conductance level (SCL) and non-specific skin conductance responses (NS.

COVID-19 pandemic as a huge stressor of the 21st century.

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic had a significant impact on the somatic and psychological state of the population worldwide, leading to a wide range of health complications. Most of the studies on the COVID-19 pandemic have focused on the direct psychological and somatic aspects of the disease. However, the negative consequences of the indirect aspect of the pandemic (i.

Vortioxetine's impact on the autonomic nervous system in depressed children and adolescents: analysis of the heart rate variability.

Relationship between depressive disorder and autonomic nervous system has been already discussed. Reduced emotional regulation is supposed to be associated with prefrontal hypofunction and subcortical hyperactivity. The aim of this study was to determine the effect of vortioxetine on heart rate variability (HRV), a parameter of cardiac autonomic regulation, in depressed hospitalized paediatric patients and assess the clinical effectiveness of the drug in this population.