PMID: 11914453Mar 27, 2002Paper

Somatosensory amplification and its relationship to heartbeat detection ability

Psychosomatic Medicine
Jennifer Mailloux, Jasper Brener

Abstract

Somatosensory amplification has been defined as the tendency to experience normal bodily sensations as intense, noxious, and disturbing. The present experiment investigated whether this tendency is due to heightened physiological sensitivity to bodily sensations. The relationship between Somatosensory Amplification Scale (SSAS) scores and objective measures of the ability to detect bodily (ie, heartbeat) sensations derived from the Method of Constant Stimuli procedure was assessed. Although somatosensory amplification characterizes hypochondriacs, the relationship between somatosensory amplification and sensitivity to bodily sensations was examined in nonhypochondriacal, nonpatient participants in an effort to dissociate somatosensory amplification from other variables associated with hypochondriasis and/or patient status. Heartbeat detectors were found to exhibit significantly lower SSAS scores than nondetectors. This finding suggests that somatosensory amplification is not due to heightened sensitivity to bodily sensations.

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