• Percept Mot Skills · Oct 1978

    A multidisciplinary approach to the expression of pain in psychic depression.

    • J R Ganchrow, J E Steiner, M Kleiner, and E L Edelstein.
    • Percept Mot Skills. 1978 Oct 1;47(2):379-90.

    AbstractThe expression of cold pressor pain was measured by recording simultaneously verbal magnitude estimates, heart rates, and facial displays of 16 recently hospitalized depressed patients, and 16 nondepressed adults. Independence of the two groups for the depression factor was verified using the Hamilton Scale for Depression and the 100-mm line self-rating scale. Verbal responses and amount of time the ice bath was tolerated, as well as heart-rate measures, indicated that depressed individuals were significantly more sensitive to the pain stimulus. However, this elevated intolerance to pain was not reflected by marked changes of facial display. Reasons for this discrepancy are discussed. Nondepressed subjects, although clearly able to verbalize intensity of pain, were much less reactive to the pain along all dimensions.

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