biofeedback
- noun
- /ˌbaɪoʊˈfiːdbæk/
- Specialized
- In her therapy sessions, she learned to use biofeedback to lower her heart rate during stressful situations.
- biofeedback training
- biofeedback instruments
- biofeedback session
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Watch on YouTubeSome people are better at reading their biofeedback or telling how they feel on a daily basis.
- Some people are better at reading their biofeedback or telling how they feel on a daily basis.
- I'm an egghead researcher that was doing experiments about biofeedback.
Examples
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The core of biofeedback is figuring out what sort of conscious states you can evoke that will affect your reptilian brain in a direction that's good for your health.
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I think biofeedback is going to help people are very unaware of their own stress levels, for example, and and how they're processing things.
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Now they use biofeedback to put you in that brain wave state.
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Some people are better at reading their biofeedback or telling how they feel on a daily basis.
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Alternative methods of biofeedback may be considered for some patients.
Academic text (2006) -
Four different biofeedback instruments are used in each of the three programs.
Academic text (1995) -
We'll get you enrolled in some biofeedback program.
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The biofeedback group received the same conventional treatment and additionally five biofeedback training sessions.
Academic text (2000) -
Guided imagery and biofeedback training may be used in the initial training for increased effectiveness.
Academic text (1990) -
Mrs. Richardson, Regina's speech therapist, would hook her up to a biofeedback machine that monitored the tension in her throat muscles.
Fiction book (1999)
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word biofeedback starts with bio- meaning 'life', the same bio in biology, and ends with feedback, meaning 'information sent back'. So biofeedback is when you get information about your body's life functions, like your heart rate, sent back to you so you can learn to control them.