The aims and methods of psychophysiology have shifted from concern over techniques and methodology to interest in the psychophysiology of various states of consciousness and of cognitive processes. Along with the shifts in research interest, there have been changes in instrumentation for data acquisition and data analysis. In its relation to psychosomatic medicine, there appears to be a plateau and further advance may require a shift from emphasis on specific motives and attitudes as correlates of diseases to that of examining the total organism in his total environment with a systems control (homeostasis through feedback) orientation.
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