Biofeedback and Behavior

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• 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 2½ 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.