Kroeze S, van den Hout M, Haenen M A, Schmidt A
Department of Experimental Abnormal Psychology, University of Limburg, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
Percept Mot Skills. 1996 Jun;82(3 Pt 1):1019-26. doi: 10.2466/pms.1996.82.3.1019.
The present study investigated whether bodily sensations reported by panic-disorder patients can be due to interoceptive attention. The attention of two groups, one of 16 panic patients and one of 17 normal control subjects was manipulated towards and away from bodily sensations. After each manipulation they had to report the sensations experienced. As expected, panic patients did report more sensations than controls in a baseline condition but against the hypothesis that a ceiling effect would occur in the panic group, both panic patients and controls reported more sensations after being instructed to attend to them. However, when their attention was diverted, panic patients showed a decrease in sensations greater than control subjects showed. The findings suggest that interoceptive attention may partly account for the sensations reported by panic patients.
本研究调查了惊恐障碍患者报告的身体感觉是否可能归因于内感受性注意。对两组进行了实验，一组是16名惊恐症患者，另一组是17名正常对照者，引导他们将注意力集中或转移至身体感觉上。每次操作后，他们都要报告所体验到的感觉。正如预期的那样，在基线条件下，惊恐症患者确实比对照组报告了更多的感觉，但与惊恐症组会出现天花板效应的假设相反，在被指示关注身体感觉后，惊恐症患者和对照组都报告了更多的感觉。然而，当他们的注意力被转移时，惊恐症患者的感觉下降幅度大于对照组。研究结果表明，内感受性注意可能部分解释了惊恐症患者报告的感觉。
