当代心身医学研究包括以下几个方面: 心理生理学研究这方面的研究包括实验室研究、临床观察及现场调查。以人为被试的实验研究常常使用某种人为的刺激性境遇,如放特殊电影,或要求完成某种脑力劳动任务,或进行应激事件的交谈,同时对某些生理学和/或生物化学的相关变化进行测量。有些研究者希望在实验室里再现实际生活中的刺激,以便确定它们对被试生理功能的影响。例如,最近有项研究要求症状处于稳定状态的心绞痛患者完成心算作业,同时用正电子断层扫 Contemporary psychosomatic research includes the following aspects: Psychophysiology Research in this area, including laboratory studies, clinical observations and field surveys. Experimental studies of human subjects often use some kind of artificial stimulus, such as the special movie, or request to complete a mental task, or stress events, conversation, and for some physiological and / or biochemical Related changes were measured. Some researchers hope to reproduce the stimuli in real life in the laboratory in order to determine their impact on the physiological function of the subjects. For example, a recent study required patients with angina who are in stable condition to complete their mental arithmetic while scanning with a positron emission tomography