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spying on your own nervous system until it behaves.
means a technique that measures involuntary body signals like heart rate or muscle tension and displays them so you can consciously learn to control them.
from emerged in the 1960s when researchers discovered that people could alter supposedly involuntary functions if simply shown real-time readouts of those functions, turning the autonomic nervous system into something you could train like a muscle.
nasa originsstudied early on for astronaut stress control
skin conductancesweat changes reveal stress before you feel it
training effectbenefits often persist after the machine is gone
military useused to treat veterans with ptsd and anxiety
for instance
neurofeedback for adhd — clinics use eeg readouts to train sustained attention
emwave device — handheld heart-coherence trainer sold since the 2000s
migraine thermal biofeedback — patients learn to raise hand temperature to cut headache frequency