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Clinical biofeedback: a behavioral analysis

B T Engel

    Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews
    |January 1, 1981
    PubMed
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    Patients can learn to control specific physiological responses through biofeedback, which is reinforcing and aids further learning. However, this learned control is specific, requiring independent training for multiple responses.

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    Area of Science:

    • Physiological Psychology
    • Clinical Biofeedback
    • Behavioral Medicine

    Background:

    • Clinical biofeedback has demonstrated patient capacity for voluntary control over specific physiological functions.
    • Learned control of abnormal physiological responses is intrinsically motivating, promoting enhanced learning and skill acquisition.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To summarize findings from clinical biofeedback studies regarding the learnability and specificity of physiological response control.
    • To discuss the implications of response specificity for therapeutic interventions requiring the control of multiple physiological parameters.

    Main Methods:

    • Review of existing clinical biofeedback research.
    • Analysis of studies investigating the acquisition and transfer of learned physiological control.

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    Main Results:

    • Patients can learn to control highly specific physiological responses, including sphincter muscles, heart rate, and blood pressure.
    • The learning process is reinforcing, facilitating subsequent skill development.
    • Learned control is specific to the trained physiological response.

    Conclusions:

    • Biofeedback enables patients to gain control over specific bodily functions.
    • Therapeutic strategies targeting multiple physiological responses may necessitate individualized training protocols for each response.