GSR, CLINICAL STATE AND PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS.

The article presents information on a study which investigates the relationship between the states of anxiety and depression and corresponding galvanic skin response activity, and the relationships between clinical states, psychogalvanic activity and psychiatric diagnoses. Data used in computations were converted from resistance to conductance units. There were four measures calculated to represent the psychogalvanic activity of each patient. Results are consistent with indications from prior research that the presence of anxiety is associated with higher levels of skin conductance and the presence of depression is associated with lower levels of skin conductance.