Crossword clues for biofeedback
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
biofeedback \bi`o*feed"back\ n. a training program in which a person is given information about physiological processes (heart rate or blood pressure) that is not normally available with the goal of gaining conscious control of them.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. A technique consisting of measuring a person's quantifiable bodily functions, such as blood pressure, heart rate, skin temperature, sweat gland activity, and muscle tension, then conveying the information to the person in real-time.
WordNet
n. a training program in which a person is given information about physiological processes (heart rate or blood pressure) that is not normally available with the goal of gaining conscious control of them
Wikipedia
Biofeedback is the process of gaining greater awareness of many physiological functions primarily using instruments that provide information on the activity of those same systems, with a goal of being able to manipulate them at will. Some of the processes that can be controlled include brainwaves, muscle tone, skin conductance, heart rate and pain perception.
Biofeedback may be used to improve health, performance, and the physiological changes that often occur in conjunction with changes to thoughts, emotions, and behavior. Eventually, these changes may be maintained without the use of extra equipment, for no equipment is necessarily required to practice biofeedback.
Biofeedback has been found to be effective for the treatment of headaches and migraines.
Usage examples of "biofeedback".
That not only did people dream in cold sleep, they needed to dream, for long-term psychological health, and so biofeedback regulators were used to release serotonin into the bloodstream, and trigger REM sleep.
His eyes were closed, and he hummed tunelessly in time to the throbbing biofeedback from his ship.
They range from hypnosis to sensory isolation, meditation, task motivation instructions, relaxation procedures, biofeedback, yoga, and many more All these techniques have features in common relating to the mind.
Carl Simonton, a radiation therapist with Oncology Associates, Fort Worth, Texas, uses a combination of meditation, visualization and biofeedback techniques in treating cancer patients.
She had hoped to write a paper on biofeedback, autogenics, and the supernormal experience in myth.
In most humans the input and reactions were woven into a snarl that even biofeedback training could barely begin to unravel.
He was caged between surgeries, fed raw meat and vitamin injections, anesthetized and programmed in ways that are sophisticated even for today: biofeedback, subliminal conditioning.
Far from being a bare-bones policy, Medicaid covers such procedures as biofeedback, impotence treatment, sex-change operations, computerized tomography, and even obesity treatment.
They had suggested certain readings, introduced her to mandalic art and mantric music, subsidized a retreat at a Zen monastery, bought her biofeedback equipment, and in general, rather than dismiss her experience and that of her generation as aberrant lunacy, had gently persuaded her that she had, after all, been very young, and that what she had supposed was ultimate Enlightenment had only been her first steps upon the Road that goes ever on.
Drugs, biofeedback, tactile and auditory and kinaesthetic stimulation-all carefully calculated for the maximum increase of both the number of neurotransmitters firing signals through the synapses of the brain and of the speed at which the signals raced.
She had hoped to write a paper on biofeedback, autogenics, and the supernormal experience in myth.
You see, the frontal lobe has become too involved with the parietal lobe of the brain, causing the inevitable biofeedback predicted by the magnificent Earth scientist Snorbert Weener in his work, Stybernetics, based on his constant association with pigs at the Massachusetts Institute of Wrectokgy.
It's active in biofeedback, it's active in REM sleep, and people with damaged pituitaries rarely dream normally.
Or a game: one of the software engineers had even tried using biofeedback techniques to screw up the test results.
Biofeedback confirms this theory somewhat since anxious people maintain physiological tension and psychological uptightness much longer than other people.