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biofeedback|baɪəʊˈfiːdbæk|
[f. bio- + feedback, feed-back n.]
A technique in which electronic equipment is used to enable a person to monitor bodily processes and parameters that are normally involuntary or unperceived, so that he or she can learn to modify them.
1970Jrnl. Transpersonal Psychol. i. 3 Gardner Murphy must be given due credit for stimulating and promoting bio-feedback research..and for his effort..to establish the Bio-Feedback Research Society, which met for the first time in 1969. 1977H. J. Eysenck You & Neurosis iv. 135 The third group was given a course in ‘biofeedback’, a technique which uses electrical recording devices to measure the functioning of various bodily systems. 1979Time 2 Apr. 40/1 At one end of this therapeutic spectrum are such exuberant exercises in self-help as biofeedback and Transcendental Meditation. 1984A. Smith Mind iv. xiv. 275 A system of ‘biofeedback’ is being used, apparently successfully, to help with rehabilitation, the patient learning how to tense and relax muscles properly. 1987Oxf. Textbk. Med. (ed. 2) II. xiii. 367/2 Several groups have now reported successful use of biofeedback in the voluntary control of heart rates or blood pressure. |