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Electrodermal activity - a review
La actividad electrodérmica -Revisión
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https://doi.org/10.15446/ing.investig.v31n2.23473Keywords:
bioelectricity, wound healing, skin, electric potential. (en)bioelectricidad, sanación de heridas, piel, potenciales eléctricos. (es)
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The electricity in living tissue was widely studied around the 19th century. Such study was suspended for many years but has then been started again during recent decades. New research into bioelectricity is creating alternatives in the health field; one of them is an electrodermal response associated with the wound healing, cell stimulation and psychopathology diagnostic. This article presents some of the first responses and models concerning electrodermal activity. Theoretical, clinical and review papers were studied and classified to show the amplitude and variety of bioelectrical responses. Electrodermal activity is only one of many applications having an abundant amount of evidence regarding diagnosis and treatment starting from bioelectrical signals. Electrical tissue response requires more experimental, theoretical and clinical research in many fields involving an organism' s behaviour to ascertain, propose and create new treatment alternatives for different pathologies.
La electricidad en los tejidos vivos fue ampliamente estudiada alrededor del siglo XIX. Los estudios fueron suspendidos durante muchos años y retomados en las últimas décadas. Las nuevas investigaciones en bioelectricidad están creando alternativas en el área de la salud, una de éstas es la respuesta electrodermal, asociada con reparación de heridas, estimulación celular, diagnóstico de psicopatologías, entre otras. Este artículo presenta algunos de los primeros hallazgos y modelos desarrollados alrededor de la actividad electrodermal (AED). Varios documentos teóricos, clínicos y de revisión fueron estudiados y clasificados para mostrar la amplitud y variedad de hallazgos sobre el tema presentado. La actividad electrodérmica es sólo una de las múltiples aplicaciones con abundante evidencia en diagnósticos y tratamientos a partir de señales bioeléctricas. Las respuestas eléctricas de los tejidos requieren más investigación experimental, teórica y clínica en muchas de las áreas que envuelven el comportamiento del organismo, para así conocer, proponer y crear nuevas alternativas de tratamiento a las diversas patologías.
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