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Dr. Sybil Carrere, former co-director of the Biobehavioral Laboratories in the Center for Women's Health and Gender Research and the School of Nursing, presents an overview of our newest facilities for doing autonomic nervous system and other forms of stress response testing.

The ANS Psychophysiological Laboratory utilizes impedance cardiography, electrocardiogram, and skin conductance measure of autonomic regulation in response to research stimuli. The psychophysiology laboratory has a set of standard protocols that can be used to assess gender-sensitive laboratory stressors (e.g., public speaking task, arithmetic stress test, heat, conflict interaction), which can be used at baseline and post-intervention for various individual studies including in field settings.

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