The task of estimating the functional state of the CNS with the pain syndrome in patients with anxious phobic disorders is examined. For solving the task, the methods of spectral and multifractal analyses of EEG segments are applied during the perception of psychogenic pain and its removal by the psychorelax ation technique. It has been demonstrated that contrary to power spectra, singularity spectra allow distin guishing EEGs quantitatively in the examined functional states of the brain. Pain suppression in patients with anxious phobic disorders during psychorelaxation is accompanied by changing the width of the singularity spectrum and approximation of the multifractal parameter to the value corresponding to healthy subjects.
The present work examines the change in color reflection in psychogenic pain in patients with somatoform disorders (SFD) during psychotherapeutic treatment, for which empatho-techniques were used. At the start and end of the course the psychophysiological condition was determined according to psychological parameters and assessment of bioelectrical brain activity. All initial indicators for the patients significantly differed from those for the healthy subjects. At the same time, color reflection in the psychogenic pain was characterised by colors in the longwave part of the spectrum, in contradistinction to healthy subjects for whom achromatic and shortwave colors predominated. After the completed course patients with SFD had a significant improvement of all psychophysiological indicators and a lack of color reflectons in the longwave part of the spectrum. The data obtained permits the proposition that there exists a link between the psychogenic pain, its color reflection and anxiety, and also changes in the functional condition of the CNS.
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