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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Apr 22.
Published in final edited form as: Physiol Behav. 2007 Nov 28;94(1):136–153. doi: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2007.11.036

Figure 6.

Figure 6

Pain thresholds (mean ± SEM) in normal subjects and in patients with bulimia nervosa. The ability to detect a noxious pressure stimulus was determined in 27 female patients with bulimia nervosa and in 31 normal, sex and age-matched controls. The force, in grams, being exerted at the time of the subjects’ verbal response was recorded. Each finger of the non-dominant hand was tested in succession, starting with the fifth digit. Pain detection thresholds were found to be significantly elevated in the bulimic population (p< 0.01; repeated measures ANOVA).