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Hypoalgesia in Depressive Illness

1981; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 138; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1192/bjp.138.1.37

1472-1465

David I. Ben-Tovim, Martin S. Schwartz,

Pain Management and Placebo Effect

Summary Neurophysiological studies of experimental pain were carried out on two severely depressed patients who complained of an inability to experience emotion. They had normal thresholds for stimulus appreciation but markedly increased thresholds for pain. These abnormal pain thresholds normalized with clinical recovery.