Nick Medford wrote:
> As a related aside: Two Russian studies looked at pain threshold in
> depersonalisation patients and found it was significantly raised.
> So here we have an interesting interaction between a
> subtle disturbance of consciousness (please, nobody ask me to define
> this dread word) and a peripheral sensory system.
> The articles are in Russian but English abstracts are at:
>http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/htbin-post/Entrez/query?uid=1963007&form=6&db=m&Dopt=b>http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/htbin-post/Entrez/query?uid=5883083&form=6&db=m&Dopt=b
Nick,
these studies don't seem to conclusively indicate any abnormality
in the peripheral nervous system. I could only access the first
abstract, but the technique measured pain threshold by
stimulating tooth pulp. This requires the subject to indicate
when the stimulus is painful, so it would not seem to prove that
there were peripheral abnormalities, only that a larger stimuls
was required, for some reason as yet unknown.
Maybe the full text or second abstract shed more light on this?
Cheers
Richard V
