Study seeks to find out just how stressed a city we are

By adamg on Mon, 07/27/2015 - 4:25pm

The Boston Stress Study hopes to outfit large numbers of Bostonians with wearable stress monitors so that it can come up with accurate numbers on just how crazed life is in this never-say-stop 21st-century city - and how that breaks down across professions, locations and, who knows, maybe even T lines.

WBUR's CommonHealth has more on the study, an effort by local startup Neumitra, which, you'll not be surprised to learn, hopes to sell "embedded biomodules to accurately and continuously measure the autonomic nervous system throughout daily life demands."

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Does it measure cortisol levels?

By Markk02474 on Mon, 07/27/2015 - 4:53pm.

If not, then not measuring stress. Seems like they just measure heart rate and perspiration, so exercise would then appear bad.

Yes

By Poor Postdoc on Mon, 07/27/2015 - 4:58pm.

I saw a presentation of their product. It measures cortisol in addition to other parameters.

Isn't...

By Minkd143 on Tue, 07/28/2015 - 4:44pm.

It possible for cortisol levels to spike if I just had a large coffee and skipped lunch?

never-say-stop 21st-century city?

By jil on Mon, 07/27/2015 - 10:52pm.

Actually, the city stops at 2am when the T stops running (earlier on weeknights).

Maybe

By Scumquistador on Tue, 07/28/2015 - 8:19am.

For you and yours.

L.A., S.F. and MANY other big cities have

By anon on Tue, 07/28/2015 - 4:08pm.

2AM closing time, and most don't have overnight public transit. NYC is fairly rare for having 24hr transit, Washington D.C. does operate until 3AM Fri-Sat nights. London underground unless it's changed doesn't operate 24hrs like NY, it shuts down around 1AM.On weekends it used to not even start up until around 7AM, unless it's changed. Most U.S. cities would kill for something like the MBTA. Sounds funny, but it's true.