By Anahad O'Connor — 2012
Patients aren’t the only ones interested in alternative and complementary medicine. In an occasional series, Well talks to doctors around the country to find out what nontraditional medicines or therapies they sometimes recommend or use themselves.
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Neurological insights into how the brain processes stress, and how it can develop into depression, have led to new interventions.
I've spent most of my recent 9-to-5 hours slouching at my desk, so I'm on a never-ending quest to find something that actually fixes my horrible posture.
I chose my therapist because he’s an expert in biofeedback, a psychology technique where a patient learns to control their body’s functions, like heart rate or palm sweating.
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During this season, our hands and feet are normally cold. But what if you can learn a simple technique to raise your hands temperature and feel relaxed by the way?
New gadgets and apps are trying to make mindfulness meditation—an often perplexing practice—a lot easier for beginners. But how much can we expect our smartphones to enlighten us?
What biofeedback was to the 1970’s, neurofeedback could be to the 2020’s.
Mental exercises with neurofeedback may ease symptoms of attention-deficit disorder, epilepsy and depression--and even boost cognition in healthy brains.
In September 2013, Chris Gardner went from kicking and spinning as a black belt in taekwondo to being locked in a world where he could not follow conversations — or even walk his dog.
It remains unclear why or how biofeedback works, but it appears to benefit people with conditions related to stress, according to The University of Maryland Medical Center (UMM).
Biofeedback is a technique that involves monitoring a person’s physiological state and feeding information about it back to that person.