Conference on Biofeedback and Behavior, Munich, 1976. creator Beatty, Jackson. Legewie, Heiner. NATO Special Program Panel on Human Factors text abstract or summary conference publication nyu New York Plenum Press c1977 1977 monographic eng

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x, 531 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. Section 1. Introduction.- 1. Biofeedback and behavior: Introduction to the Proceedings.- 2. A perspective on biofeedback.- 3. Biofeedback from the perspectives of cybernetics and systems science.- 4. Methodological and technological issues in biofeedback research.- 5. Visceral feedback and the taste signal.- Section 2. Central Nervous System.- 6. Learned control of brain wave activity.- 7. Biofeedback method for locating the most controlled responses of EEG alpha to visual stimulation.- 8. Alpha, biofeedback and arousal/activation.- 9. On the social psychology of experiential states associated with EEG alpha biofeedback training.- 10. Operant enhancement of EEG-theta activity.- 11. Theta regulation and radar vigilance performance.- 12. Effects of sensorimotor EEG feedback training on sleep and clinical manifestations of epilepsy.- Section 3. Autonomic Nervous System.- 13. Visceral learning: Cardiovascular conditioning in primates.- 14. Mechanisms of learned voluntary control of blood pressure in patients with generalised bodily paralysis.- 15. Visceral perception.- 16. The role of exteroceptive feedback in learned electrodermal 261 and cardiac control: Some attractions of and problems with discrimination theory.- 17. Inter-effector influences in operant autonomic control.- 18. Biofeedback and physiological patterning in human emotion and consciousness.- 19. Biofeedback and the regulation of complex psychological processes.- 20. Research on the specificity of feedback training: Implications for the use of biofeedback in the treatment of anxiety and fear.- 21. Biofeedback, verbal instructions and the motor skills analogy.- 22. Pavlovian and operant-biofeedback procedures combined produce large-magnitude conditional heart-rate decelerations.- 23. Blood pressure control with pulse wave velocity feedback: Methods of analysis and training.- 24. Coronary biofeedback: A challenge to bioengineering.- 25. Biofeedback control of stomach acid secretions and gastrointestinal reactions.- 26. Biofeedback as treatment for cardiovascular disorders: A critical review.- 27. Biofeedback and meditation in the treatment of borderline hypertension.- Section 4. Skeletal Muscle System.- 28. Biofeedback and differential conditioning of response patterns in the skeletal motor system.- 29. Biofeedback in the treatment of neuromuscular disorders.- 30. EMG feedback strategies in rehabilitation of neuromuscular disorders.- 31. Why should muscular relaxation be clinically useful? Some data and 21/2 models.- Section 5. Conclusion.- 32. Clinical implications of biofeedback.- 33. Contributions of biofeedback methods to the understanding 487 of visceral and central nervous system functions.- Name Index. edited by Jackson Beatty and Heiner Legewie. Proceedings of a conference held at the Max Planck Institut für Psychiatrie in Munich, Germany, July 27-30, 1976, sponsored by the NATO Special Program Panel on Human Factors. Includes bibliographies and index. Biofeedback training Congresses BF319.5.B5 C66 1976 152.188 BEA L 0306328828 77000830 DLC 770124 20190822171216.0 3664838