Altered states of consciousness provide valuable insights essential for a better understanding of the phenomenon of consciousness. Improved understanding of physiological correlates of states with expanded consciousness may allow possible use of biofeedback as a tool for achieving of those states at will. As a consequence, this approach may facilitate improvement of efficiency, creativity, and ...

PURPOSE Biofeedback is an emerging tool to acquire and facilitate physiological and psychological domains of the human body like response time and concentration. Thus, the present study aims at determining the reconstitution of psychomotor and performance skills in basketball players through biofeedback training. METHODS Basketball players (N=30) with different levels of expertise (university...

Biofeedback has much therapeutic potential in cardiovascular diseases, since many of these diseases involve dysregulation of the autonomic nervous system. Studies have clearly demonstrated that patients can use biofeedback techniques to regulate the input of the autonomic nervous system to the heart, but the clinical utility of these techniques has not been well explored in systematic trials. M...

OBJECTIVES To present additional analysis of data from a previously published study showing that biofeedback training to increase heart rate variability (HRV) can be an effective component in asthma treatment. HRV and intervention-related changes in HRV are negatively correlated with age. Here we assess the effects of age on biofeedback effects for asthma. DESIGN Ten sessions of HRV biofeedba...

Alpha-theta neurofeedback has been shown to produce professionally significant performance improvements in music students. The present study aimed to extend this work to a different performing art and compare alpha-theta neurofeedback with another form of biofeedback: heart rate variability (HRV) biofeedback. Twenty-four ballroom and Latin dancers were randomly allocated to three groups, one re...

2006;129;278-284 Chest Anthony Scardella and Robert Habib Paul Lehrer, Evgeny Vaschillo, Shou-En Lu, Dwain Eckberg, Bronya Vaschillo, Baroreflex Gain, and Asthma Heart Rate Variability Biofeedback: Effects of Age on Heart Rate Variability, This information is current as of July 18, 2006 http://www.chestjournal.org/cgi/content/full/129/2/278 located on the World Wide Web at: The online version o...

As we previously reported, resonant frequency heart rate variability biofeedback increases baroreflex gain and peak expiratory flow in healthy individuals and has positive effects in treatment of asthma patients. Biofeedback readily produces large oscillations in heart rate, blood pressure, vascular tone, and pulse amplitude via paced breathing at the specific natural resonant frequency of the ...