Stress-Monitoring Patch

Jul-21-18 A wearable device that monitors stress levels could help in disease detection and sports performance.

Current methods of tracking cortisol levels require days of lab work, which dates the information and does not detect short-term stressors. To offer a more real-time alternative, the team from Stanford University created a wearable patch able to measure current cortisol production via sweat.

As the sweat is pulled into the patch, the cortisol is stopped by a membrane that only allows charged ions to pass through. The charged ions blocked by the cortisol can be detected as electrical signals that can then be used to determine how much cortisol—and stress—the person is generating.

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