Lolas F
Acta Psiquiatr Psicol Am Lat. 1983 Dec;29(4):283-93.
One of the research approaches followed at the Psychophysiology Unit of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Chile, is described. After clarifying the broad concept of physiology employed in these studies, the notion of behavior is put forward as a function of tre whole living organism. Some reasons for its being neglected in traditional physiological research are briefly presented, along with comments on its relation to clinical work in psychiatry, especially in description and diagnosis. Electrophysiological studies conducted at the Psychophysiology Unit have been aimed at generating data of behavioral relevance during well-defined experimental conditions in order to obtain information complementing that obtained in other observational settings, such as psychometric testing or clinical interview. It is hoped that such approach might be used in the establishment of diagnostic categories of high consensual validity and based on culturefair indicators. As an example of methodical strategy in clinical phychophysiology, work on slow brain potentials (contingent negative variation, CNV) is briefly reviewed.
本文描述了智利大学医学院心理生理学研究室所采用的一种研究方法。在阐明这些研究中所使用的广义生理学概念之后，提出了行为是整个生物体功能的观点。简要介绍了行为在传统生理学研究中被忽视的一些原因，并对其与精神病学临床工作的关系进行了评论，特别是在描述和诊断方面。心理生理学研究室进行的电生理研究旨在在明确界定的实验条件下生成与行为相关的数据，以便获得补充在其他观察环境中（如心理测量测试或临床访谈）所获得信息的数据。希望这种方法可用于建立具有高度共识效度且基于文化公平指标的诊断类别。作为临床心理生理学方法策略的一个例子，简要回顾了关于慢脑电位（伴随负变化，CNV）的研究工作。
