What’s the difference, if any, between biofeedback and neurofeedback?
Biofeedback refers to a training or coaching process in which technology is used to help a person (or animal) get more information about his body than the normal senses provide. The information is used to raise the level of awareness about the function and eventually, to increase voluntary self control over the funciton– such as heart rate, muscle tension, stomach acidity, skin conductance, respiratory patterns or rate, , body position or joint angle, skin temperature or brain electrical or blood flow activity. Neurofeedback , also called EEG Biofeedback or Neurotherapy, is one variety of biofeedback which focuses on feeding back information about brain activity– usually EEG (electroencephalographic.) It usually involves increasing or decreasing brainwave activity of certain frequencies at certain locations. Some trainers only use neurofeedback. Others combine central biofeedback “central nervous sytem” ie., EEG or Brain biofeedback with peripheral biofeedback, ie., muscle, skin temp
