Wearable Physiologic Monitoring Platform: Commercially available wearable physiologic monitoring devices and digital health technologies will be used to collect continuous or intermittent biometric, cardiovascular, autonomic nervous system, behavioral, and sleep-related data during exposure to financial market volatility, economic uncertainty, and information-driven stress environments.
Monitoring technologies may include:
wearable ECG devices, heart rate variability (HRV) monitors, blood pressure monitoring systems, sleep tracking devices, galvanic skin response sensors, activity monitoring wearables, voice analysis systems, and optional EEG-enabled wearable technologies.
Data generated from these systems will be integrated with artificial intelligence and machine learning-based analytics platforms for evaluation of physiologic stress responses and digital biomarker forecasting.
Study summary
The NeuroFinance Human Stress Trial (NFHST-2026-001) is a decentralized observational clinical study designed to evaluate how financial market volatility, economic uncertainty, digital media exposure, and information-driven stress environments affect human physiologic and behavioral health. Participants will undergo remote monitoring using wearable biosensors, cardiovascular telemetry devices, sleep tracking systems, heart rate variability monitoring, and behavioral analytics platforms. The study will use artificial intelligence and machine learning systems to analyze relationships between external financial and informational events and biologic stress responses, including autonomic nervous system activity, sleep disruption, cardiovascular strain, emotional resilience, and inflammatory signaling. The goal of the study is to develop predictive digital biomarkers and AI-assisted forecasting systems capable of identifying stress-related physiologic deterioration before clinical manifestation.
Eligibility
Sex
ALL
Min age
18 Years
Max age
—
Healthy volunteers
Accepted
Inclusion Criteria:
* Adults age 18 years and older.
* Ability to provide informed consent.
* Willingness and ability to comply with study procedures and remote monitoring requirements.
* Access to a compatible smartphone, tablet, or internet-connected device for decentralized study participation.
* Willingness to utilize wearable physiologic monitoring technologies during the study period.
* Participants with varying degrees of financial market exposure, occupational stress exposure, or digital media exposure are eligible.
* Healthy volunteers and participants with self-reported stress-related symptoms may be enrolled.
* Ability to read and understand English-language consent and study materials.
Exclusion Criteria:
* Individuals unable or unwilling to provide informed consent.
* Individuals unable to comply with remote monitoring procedures or wearable device usage requirements.
* Active medical or psychiatric instability that, in the opinion of study investigators, may interfere with study participation or data integrity.
* Current incarceration or institutionalization limiting voluntary participation.
* Participation in another interventional clinical trial that may substantially interfere with physiologic monitoring outcomes.
* Any condition that would significantly impair safe study participation as determined by the study investigators.
Primary outcome measure(s)
Change in Heart Rate Variability (HRV) During Financial Stress Exposure — Baseline through 24 Months Heart rate variability will be measured using wearable electrocardiographic or photoplethysmographic monitoring devices. HRV will be quantified as the root mean square of successive differences (RMSSD) in milliseconds. Higher RMSSD values generally indicate improved autonomic nervous system flexibility and lower physiologic stress burden.
Change in Sleep Duration — Baseline through 24 Months Sleep duration will be measured in hours per night using wearable sleep monitoring devices.
Change in Resting Heart Rate — Baseline through 24 Months Resting heart rate will be measured in beats per minute using wearable biosensor devices.
Change in Perceived Stress Scale-10 (PSS-10) Total Score — Baseline through 24 Months Perceived stress will be assessed using the validated 10-item Perceived Stress Scale-10 questionnaire. Scores range from 0 to 40, with higher scores indicating greater perceived psychological stress and worse stress-related outcomes.
This page summarises publicly available registry data for informational purposes — not medical advice. Eligibility is determined by each study team; patients should discuss participation with their clinician.
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