27 patients with major depression and 27 age-matched healthy
controls were included in the study. The characteristics of each group
are listed in Table 1. All subjects were not statistically different for either
age and gender distribution or cognitive and functional performance
(Tables 1 and 3). Tactile, pain and pain tolerance thresholds are recorded
in Table 2.
Mean tactile thresholds did not significantly differ between patients
and controls; whereas pain thresholds and pain tolerance thresholds
were significantly lower in patients (p b 0.05).