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August 23-24, 2018 | Paris, France
Neurology and Neurological Disorders
18th International Conference on
Journal of Neurology and Neurorehabilitation Research | Volume 3
Stress is the generic term for a subjective cognitive
experience, and a psychological and physiological
synthesized state generates under a variety of perceptions,
thoughts, and behaviors, and environmental factors. In
general, stress responses can be categorized into Angry,
Protected, Sad, Surprised, Fear, and Unconcerned, 6 types
of negative emotions. Stress is often created under the
influence of mood, personality, temperament, purpose, and
environmental factors. It can also be affected by hormones
and neuro transmitters. While stress can have many trigger,
events caused by personal and environmental factors,
focus is the result of motivation working in harmony with
the environment. Although some stress related emotional
behavior appears take place inadvertently, conscious
reactions to environmental stimuli plays an important role
in producing stress reactions. A focused state is where
emotions are suppressed to allow a task or multiple tasks
to be performed. In a focused state the brain works in
harmony with the environment, instead of reacting to it.
This paper from the perspective of cognitive neuroscience
investigates difference of human brainwave of 6 types
of stress triggered emotions i.e. Angry, Protected, Sad,
Surprised, Fear, and Unconcerned. The experiment uses
acoustic stimuli to initiate the transition between a
stressed state and a focused state in the test subjects.
Electroencephalogram (EEG) hardware and software is used
to extract frontal lobe brainwaves. The extracted brainwaves
are further transformed into frequency domain signal where
sub-band energy is calculated, characterized, and finally
digitally encoded for analysis. The encoded characteristic
brainwaves for stress reactions are compared for their
difference. Audio induced transitional waveforms that
indicate a focused state, can be effectively identified by the
proposed emotional brainwave digital encoding technique.
Speaker Biography
Robert L Burton has received BS in Biochemistry and Mathematics from Georgetown
UniversityWashingtonD.C.in1974andhisM.D.andPh.D.inPhysicalQuantumBiochemistry
in 1978 from George Washington University in 1978. He has done residency for internal
medicine at Saint Francis Hospital University of Hawaii, and Case Western University
Cleveland Ohio, where he also received the Liliha Cancer research grant, for work on
estrogen receptor detection with radio immune assay. He did his subspecialty in Oncology
and Pediatrics at Georgetown University and has received a Sc.D. in Bioengineering
at George Washington University in 1985. He has done research with N.A.S.A. in the
pathfinder program and helped design a biochemical analysis package for the Mars Rover.
He was in private practice for 15 years, then worked at University of Chicago Hospitals. He
supposedly retired to Carmel California and then found a great position at Plantronics Inc.
Where he is one of the 2 medical doctors working on innovations in the wireless industry.
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Robert L Burton
Plantronics Inc., USA
Turning Stress into focus with Soundscaping