Investigations of the evoked potentials (EPs) to noxious laser stimulation have indicated consistent strong linear relationships between subjective response (R), stimulus intensity (S), and EP amplitude (A). Thirty patients with chronic intractable benign pain syndromes (CIBPS) were tested to determine whether their patterns differed from previous studies with normal volunteers. Nearly half of the CIBPS patients were found to be relatively insensitive to acute pain stimuli. A large number were also found to show negative relationships between S and A. These differences from control subjects were considered of potential importance in their implications concerning the nature of chronic pain and its differences from the acute pain process.
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