While their affective response does not differ from healthy patients, people with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) are less sensitive at detecting thermal pain, according to investigators at Vanderbilt University School of Nursing, in Nashville, Tenn.
Publishing in BMC Medicine (2016 May 10. [Epub ahead of print]), the investigators wrote that the findings suggest people with AD may experience more pain and sustain more damage to tissue and organs before identifying and reporting injuries.