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An assessment of sensory sensitivity in women suffering from depression using transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation

BACKGROUND: Perception is the process or result of the process arising from the mental interpretation of the phenomena occurring, therefore it depends not only on physiology, but is also psychologically and socially conditioned. The aim of this study was to assess if there is a difference in the sen...

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Autores principales: Witkoś, Joanna, Fusińska-Korpik, Agnieszka, Hartman-Petrycka, Magdalena, Nowak, Agnieszka
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9097666/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35573182
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13373
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author Witkoś, Joanna
Fusińska-Korpik, Agnieszka
Hartman-Petrycka, Magdalena
Nowak, Agnieszka
author_facet Witkoś, Joanna
Fusińska-Korpik, Agnieszka
Hartman-Petrycka, Magdalena
Nowak, Agnieszka
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description BACKGROUND: Perception is the process or result of the process arising from the mental interpretation of the phenomena occurring, therefore it depends not only on physiology, but is also psychologically and socially conditioned. The aim of this study was to assess if there is a difference in the sensory sensitivity to an electrical stimulus in women suffering from depression and what the hedonic rating is of the lived experience of transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation. METHODS: The depression group: 44 women, who were inpatients treated for depression at the Psychiatric Ward in the Clinical Hospital, and the control group: 41 women, matched by the age, height and weight, with no mental illness. Measures: threshold for sensing current, type of sensation evoked, hedonic rating. RESULTS: Median sensing threshold of electric current (depression vs. control: 7.75 mA vs. 8.35 mA; no significant), type of sensation evoked (depression vs. control: tingling 90.9% vs. 92.7%, no significant), hedonic rating (depression vs. control: unpleasant 11.4% vs. 2.4%; p = 0.003), hedonic rating (mildly ill vs. moderately ill vs. markedly ill: unpleasant 5.3% vs. 6.3% vs. 33.3%; p = 0.066). CONCLUSIONS: Women suffering from depression exhibit a similar threshold of sensitivity to an electrical stimulus as mentally healthy women, however the hedonic rating of the stimulus acting on the skin in the group of clinically depressed women was more negative than in the mentally healthy subjects. The stimulus was described as ‘unpleasant’ for many of the mentally unhealthy women. The most negative sensations related to the electrical stimulus were experienced by women with the highest severity of mental illness according to The Clinical Global Impression - Severity Scale.
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spelling pubmed-90976662022-05-13 An assessment of sensory sensitivity in women suffering from depression using transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation Witkoś, Joanna Fusińska-Korpik, Agnieszka Hartman-Petrycka, Magdalena Nowak, Agnieszka PeerJ Neuroscience BACKGROUND: Perception is the process or result of the process arising from the mental interpretation of the phenomena occurring, therefore it depends not only on physiology, but is also psychologically and socially conditioned. The aim of this study was to assess if there is a difference in the sensory sensitivity to an electrical stimulus in women suffering from depression and what the hedonic rating is of the lived experience of transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation. METHODS: The depression group: 44 women, who were inpatients treated for depression at the Psychiatric Ward in the Clinical Hospital, and the control group: 41 women, matched by the age, height and weight, with no mental illness. Measures: threshold for sensing current, type of sensation evoked, hedonic rating. RESULTS: Median sensing threshold of electric current (depression vs. control: 7.75 mA vs. 8.35 mA; no significant), type of sensation evoked (depression vs. control: tingling 90.9% vs. 92.7%, no significant), hedonic rating (depression vs. control: unpleasant 11.4% vs. 2.4%; p = 0.003), hedonic rating (mildly ill vs. moderately ill vs. markedly ill: unpleasant 5.3% vs. 6.3% vs. 33.3%; p = 0.066). CONCLUSIONS: Women suffering from depression exhibit a similar threshold of sensitivity to an electrical stimulus as mentally healthy women, however the hedonic rating of the stimulus acting on the skin in the group of clinically depressed women was more negative than in the mentally healthy subjects. The stimulus was described as ‘unpleasant’ for many of the mentally unhealthy women. The most negative sensations related to the electrical stimulus were experienced by women with the highest severity of mental illness according to The Clinical Global Impression - Severity Scale. PeerJ Inc. 2022-05-09 /pmc/articles/PMC9097666/ /pubmed/35573182 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13373 Text en ©2022 Witkoś et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
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Witkoś, Joanna
Fusińska-Korpik, Agnieszka
Hartman-Petrycka, Magdalena
Nowak, Agnieszka
An assessment of sensory sensitivity in women suffering from depression using transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation
title An assessment of sensory sensitivity in women suffering from depression using transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation
title_full An assessment of sensory sensitivity in women suffering from depression using transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation
title_fullStr An assessment of sensory sensitivity in women suffering from depression using transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation
title_full_unstemmed An assessment of sensory sensitivity in women suffering from depression using transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation
title_short An assessment of sensory sensitivity in women suffering from depression using transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation
title_sort assessment of sensory sensitivity in women suffering from depression using transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation
topic Neuroscience
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9097666/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35573182
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13373
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