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Skin Conductance Hypo‐Responding in Recently Abstinent Cocaine Dependent Inpatients
Author(s) -
Killeen Therese K.,
Brady Kathleen T.
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
the american journal on addictions
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.997
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1521-0391
pISSN - 1055-0496
DOI - 10.1080/10550490050173226
Subject(s) - skin conductance , psychology , cocaine dependence , stimulus (psychology) , arousal , conductance , audiology , medicine , neuroscience , addiction , cognitive psychology , mathematics , combinatorics , biomedical engineering
Skin conductance has been used as a measure of physiological arousal in cocaine cue reactivity studies. In this study, skin conductance responses in recently abstinent (average 3.1 ± 1.7 days) cocaine dependent inpatients (N = 30) were assessed. A video depicting individuals preparing and using cocaine was the cue stimulus. Skin conductance responses were not increased by the stimulus cue. Several explanations are explored that may support not using skin conductance as an outcome measure in recently abstinent cocaine dependent patients.