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Psychophysiological Assessment of Statements About Pain
Author(s) -
Salamy Joseph G.,
Wolk David J.,
Shucard David WM.
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
psychophysiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.661
H-Index - 156
eISSN - 1469-8986
pISSN - 0048-5772
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-8986.1983.tb03017.x
Subject(s) - psychology , anticipation (artificial intelligence) , malingering , chronic pain , heart rate , heart rate variability , audiology , clinical psychology , developmental psychology , cognitive psychology , physical medicine and rehabilitation , psychiatry , medicine , blood pressure , artificial intelligence , computer science
A psychophysiological procedure was developed to study the interaction of physiological activity and verbal statements in pain patients. This procedure compared skin potential and heart rate changes occurring during designated baseline, anticipation, reception, processing, and responding stages of a question‐answer sequence, in 7 chronic pain patients and 7 non‐patient controls. Pain, emotional, and neutral type questions were randomly presented. It was found that the processing of pain questions produced significantly larger physiological changes in pain patients than in the non‐pain controls. Such differential psychophysiological responsivity may serve as a basis for the early recognition of chronic pain syndrome and the detection of malingering.