| biofeedback | <procedure> A process in which a person learns to influence reliably physiologic responses of two kinds: those that are not ordinarily under voluntary control or those that ordinarily are easily regulated but for which regulation has broken down because of trauma or disease. <psychology> A process that uses instrumentation to give a person immediate and continuing signals of change in his bodily function of which he is usually unaware. (12 Dec 1998) |
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