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Science 9 March 1962:
Vol. 135. no. 3506, pp. 788 - 789
DOI: 10.1126/science.135.3506.788
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Pain Threshold and Discrimination of Pain Intensity during Brief Exposure to Intense Noise

Walter Camp 1, Robert Martin 1, and Loring F. Chapman 1

1 Study Program in Human Health and the Ecology of Man and Department of Medicine (Neurology), New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, New York

Neither pain threshold nor the capacity to discriminate intensity of mild pain was significantly altered during simultaneous stimulation by intense "white" noise. These observations indicate that the reported clinical usefulness of such auditory stimulation during painful therapeutic procedures does not result from an alteration in the capacity to perceive pain.


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