Psychophysiological diagnostics of functional states in sports medicine.

OBJECTIVES

The methods of psychological diagnostics ignored the integral criteria of functional states which are used in athletes. That is the reason why the elaboration of psychophysiological diagnostics criteria for higher qualification athletes was performed.

BACKGROUND

The diagnostics of psychophysiological functions obtains information on individual and typological characteristics of higher neural system, peculiarities of forming and improvement of special experience and indicators of fatigue and hypertension of athletes.

METHODS

The 26 higher qualification athletes (men), members of National team (Judo) were examined. The psychophysiological and neurodynamic functions such as functional mobility of nervous processes, strength of nervous processes, time perception, attention volume, operational thinking coefficient and short-term memory volume were registered by a computer system. The differential scale of functional states of psychophysiological functions in athletes was elaborated.

RESULTS

The results of the investigation showed that 10 subjects had high parameters of functional states of psychophysiological functions and 14 have the intermediate level. The functional states of psychophysiological functions in higher qualification athletes characterize the functional system responsible for the results of sport. The optimization of the perception and information processing using the short-term memory reflects the psychophysiological compensatory mechanisms of a decline of visual perception and information processing capability in athletes.

CONCLUSIONS

The psychophysiological states in higher qualification athletes are characterized by the functional system responsible for the result of sport (Tab. 7, Ref. 13).