Biofeedback and Behavior: A NATO Symposium, held on 27-30 July 1976 at the Max Planck Institut fUr Psychiatrie in MUnchen, was a mul tidisciplinary meeting that explored both theoretical and applied issues arising from the use of biofeedback procedures for the control of visceral , central nervous system and skeletal events. The symposium was multi national in its composition. Financial support for the symposium was initially provided by the Scientific Affairs Division of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization as part of their continuing series of scientific symposia. Funds made avail able by a grant from the United States Office of Naval Research permit ted wide-spread international participation in the symposium. The facil ities for the meeting were graciously provided by the Max Planck Institut ilir Psychiatrie. We thank each of these organizations for their support in making this symposium possible. A special thanks is due to Dr. B.A. Bayraktar of the Scientific Affairs Division of NA TO and Dr. Donald Wood ward of the U. S. Office of Naval Research, whose counsel contributed substantially to the organization of this meeting. The planning of this symposium was carried out in consultation with members of the organizing committee: Rolf Engel, Pola Engel-Sittenfeld, Laverne C. Johnson, George H. Lawrence, Gary E. Schwartz, and Da vid Shapiro. The final form of this symposium reflects their contribu tions, for which we are grateful.

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Section 1. Introduction.- 1. Biofeedback and behavior: Introduction to the Proceedings.- 2. A perspective on biofeedback.- 3. Biofeedback from the perspectives of cybernetics and systems science.- 4. Methodological and technological issues in biofeedback research.- 5. Visceral feedback and the taste signal.- Section 2. Central Nervous System.- 6. Learned control of brain wave activity.- 7. Biofeedback method for locating the most controlled responses of EEG alpha to visual stimulation.- 8. Alpha, biofeedback and arousal/activation.- 9. On the social psychology of experiential states associated with EEG alpha biofeedback training.- 10. Operant enhancement of EEG-theta activity.- 11. Theta regulation and radar vigilance performance.- 12. Effects of sensorimotor EEG feedback training on sleep and clinical manifestations of epilepsy.- Section 3. Autonomic Nervous System.- 13. Visceral learning: Cardiovascular conditioning in primates.- 14. Mechanisms of learned voluntary control of blood pressure in patients with generalised bodily paralysis.- 15. Visceral perception.- 16. The role of exteroceptive feedback in learned electrodermal 261 and cardiac control: Some attractions of and problems with discrimination theory.- 17. Inter-effector influences in operant autonomic control.- 18. Biofeedback and physiological patterning in human emotion and consciousness.- 19. Biofeedback and the regulation of complex psychological processes.- 20. Research on the specificity of feedback training: Implications for the use of biofeedback in the treatment of anxiety and fear.- 21. Biofeedback, verbal instructions and the motor skills analogy.- 22. Pavlovian and operant-biofeedback procedures combined produce large-magnitude conditional heart-rate decelerations.- 23. Blood pressure control with pulse wave velocity feedback: Methods of analysis and training.- 24. Coronary biofeedback: A challenge to bioengineering.- 25. Biofeedback control of stomach acid secretions and gastrointestinal reactions.- 26. Biofeedback as treatment for cardiovascular disorders: A critical review.- 27. Biofeedback and meditation in the treatment of borderline hypertension.- Section 4. Skeletal Muscle System.- 28. Biofeedback and differential conditioning of response patterns in the skeletal motor system.- 29. Biofeedback in the treatment of neuromuscular disorders.- 30. EMG feedback strategies in rehabilitation of neuromuscular disorders.- 31. Why should muscular relaxation be clinically useful? Some data and 2½ models.- Section 5. Conclusion.- 32. Clinical implications of biofeedback.- 33. Contributions of biofeedback methods to the understanding 487 of visceral and central nervous system functions.- Name Index.