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| A Message
from the President |
By Aubrey Ewing, PhD
You receive Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback
as an AAPB membership benefit-a print copy in the mail and
full-text e-access to all published issues via the members-only
portion of the AAPB website. I'd like to point out that the
journal is also a truly excellent one to which you may submit
your papers. Peer review is carried out
expeditiously and efficiently via the journal's online
manuscript-submission and peer-review system, Editorial
Manager. This system allows authors to track the progress of
their papers. Production times are speedy and papers published
quickly. The journal is accepted into the most prestigious
abstracting/indexing services, such as PsycINFO, PubMed/Medline, and
the Social Science Citation Index, and has wide distribution
worldwide. We're proud that its Impact Factor, a measure of
content quality, has risen over the last
year. Speedy peer review and publication; great
visibility and availability for your work. Please
consider submitting your original papers to Applied
Psychophysiology and Biofeedback ( submit online
now). In addition to reading the journal and
accessing papers via the AAPB website (or via a participating
university library network), I invite you to support our official
publication by submitting your next paper. Should you have any
questions about this, Editor Frank Andrasik is available and will be
pleased to hear from you.
Enjoy the issues and
online access, and participate by submitting your
next original paper! Aubrey Ewing,
Ph.D. President, AAPB |
| "What is
biofeedback?" question answered by leading scientific
groups |
Biofeedback has evolved from a
fascination in the 1960s and 70s to a mainstream methodology today
for treating certain medical conditions and improving human
performance. This evolution has been driven by years of
scientific research demonstrating that the mind and body are
connected, and that people can be taught to harness the power of
this connection to change physical activity and improve health and
function. Public interest in biofeedback is growing, and with
it the need for a clear answer to the question, "what is
biofeedback?" The leading professional organizations representing
the field have answered with a standard definition. See the full
article.
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| A New
Biofeedback Alliance |
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By David Stumph, CAE, Executive Director
A
special event has taken place. The Presidents and
Presidents-Elect from the three bodies representing biofeedback,
AAPB, BCIA, and ISNR, have come together to discuss the
future of the profession. The result is a new affiliation,
which was dubbed the Biofeedback/Neurofeedback Alliance. We all
walked away from this new alliance with a renewed vision for the
future of biofeedback. By coming together, we learned that we share
the same goals and vision for advancing the future of biofeedback
and that there is a unity of spirit among the three groups in
achieving qualified growth in this profession. Read more about the
goals set forth by the alliance. |
| Biofeedback Brings Home the
Gold |
When Abhinav Bindra took home the gold medal in the 10 metres
air rifle event at the Beijing Olympics, he not only earned the
first individual medal ever for India, he also demonstrated how
biofeedback training can be an integral part of performance
optimization at the highest level.
Dead aim is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the
skills needed to excel at shooting. In addition, shooters need
controlled breathing and heart rate, no excess tension in their
muscles, no interior monologue, and sharp focus and good reactions
to trigger at the moment when the sight image is correct.
Sport psychologist Timothy Harkness used biofeedback training
to help Bindra master control over all these areas. Harkness joined
a team of shooting coaches, a physician, chiropractor, dietician and
physiotherapist to prepare Bandra for the 2008 competition. The
result was that an already world-champion athlete was able to push
his skills and focus even higher. He achieved his personal goal and
earned the only medal for India during the 2008 games.
To learn more about the use of biofeedback in peak performance
training, contact the optimal functioning section of AAPB at rtinneract@aol.com. | |
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Clinician's Tool Kit Now
Available |
In
response to member requests, AAPB has created a Clinician's
Tool Kit. The kit provides resources to help you manage,
promote and sustain a successful clinical biofeedback
practice. In it you will find:
- Patient/Consumer Tools
- CPT Code Tools
- Insurance, Billing & Coding Tools
- Justification for Biofeedback Tools
- Biofeedback in the Media Tools
It is free to AAPB members. Login to the members-only
section at www.aapb.org.
Put these tools to work for you today! You will want to watch the
site periodically as new items will be posted on a regular
basis.
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| Upcoming
Events |
- AAPB TeleSeminars:
See full
schedule.
- AAPB Fall Workshop:
Blast Injuries: TBI, PTSD, and Pain - November 7-8, 2008,
Washington DC. See details.
- AAPB Annual Meeting:
April 2-4, 2009, Albuquerque, New Mexico. See the Call for Exhibits
online.
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| Two New
Publications Available Now |
Biofeedback Mastery:
An Experiential Teaching and Self-Training
Manual
by Erik Peper, Hana Tylova, Katherine H.
Gibney, Richard Harvey and Didier Combatalade
This book teaches
basic skills derived from more than 30 years of biofeedback training
and teaching experience:
- Making sense of the
data
- Translating a
computer-based practice into home practice
- Monitoring and
displaying biological signals of interest
- The underlying
physiology of each signal
- Accurately recording
the signal
- The basics of
self-regulation
- Limitations of
psychophysiological monitoring
- Techniques for
connecting and attaching sensors
- Discriminating real
feedback signals from artifact.
Evidence-Based
Practice in Biofeedback and Neurofeedback - 2008
Edition
by Carolyn Yucha, PhD and Doil Montgomery,
PhD
This book reviews the
efficacy levels of 41 types of disorders treated with biofeedback.
These reports represent an increase from 37 specific disorders and a
doubling in size over the previous edition, from 48 to 96 pages.
Biofeedback and neurofeedback provide the kind of evidence-based
practice the health care establishment is demanding. Evidence-based
practice is a process that uses the best evidence, preferably
research findings, to guide delivery of health services. Levels of
evidence range from case reports to observational studies to
randomized clinical trials.
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| Welcome New
Members! |
| We welcome those individuals who
have recently become new members of AAPB. We're delighted to
have you join the premier international society for mind-body
interactions in research, healthcare and education. Thank you
for joining the AAPB community. We hope to meet many of you at
the Annual Meeting in Albuquerque. See the complete list
online. |
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Biofeedback
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