バイオフィードバックの臨床的応用

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A psychological strategy with which we can control our internal responses voluntarily is called biofeedback (BF) training. It consists of two components. The first is cognition or knowledge of internal responses and the second is learning control of these responses. These two are based on the operant conditioning in principle. Generally, we do not use rewards or punishments when we apply the biofeedback training to clinical treatment, because it is considered that the release from their symptoms in itself brings a reward for patients. But this concept is not always right and can be one of reasons that BF training brings us unsteady clinical effects, It is desirable that internal responses as a target for the BF procedure satisfy the next four conditions i. e. objectivity, quantitativeness, controllability and pathogenecity. Some of the problems in clinical applications of BF training are as follows : 1) a specific parameter or visceral response for a disease 2) clinical effective dose of these responses which are obtained by BF training 3) correlation of each response 4) individual differences (i. e, personality, motivation, reward, use of voluntary responses and psychological strategy, etc.) 5) transfer of BF efficacy into the daily life We consider that making these problems clear leads to solving the psychosomatic correlation by an objective method of BF training.
日本心身医学会の論文
1981-12-01