DEPRESSION AND PARAMETERS OF THE MYOELECT RIC SPECTRUM

The results of psychophysiological investigations show that depressed patients exhibit a higher level of mucular tension. A frequently or pe rmanent raised muscular tension could effect a morphological adaption of muscles (Transformation of FF-fibres to FR-fibres) resulting in a l ower mean power frequency (MPF) of the EMG spectrum. To verify this as sumption we studied 22 depressed inpatients and analysed the relation between the MPF and the score of the ''Beck Depression Inventory'' (BD I). We found a negative correlation, Different interpretations of this result are discussed.