DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUE FOR DISORDERS OF SEXUAL PREFERENCE Russian patent published in 2010 - IPC A61B5/16 

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: invention refers to medicine, particularly to psychopathology and sexology, namely to forensic sexology and forensic psychiatry. An examined person is presented with a series of adaptation stimulus test, general test questionnaire, activity and age specific verbal stimulation tests (questionnaires), threshold visual stimulation test and subthreshold visual stimulation test with using a masking image. It is combined with recording psychophysiological parametres, particularly thoracic breathing, ventral breathing, galvanic skin responses, cardiovascular responses, motion activity, voice reactions. The acquired data are processed by Polygram expert metric or expert score analysis method.

EFFECT: method allows diagnosing disorders of sexual preference in adjustive behaviour or simulation cases, as well as unconscious disorders of sexual preference.

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