Abstract
The metabolism of living beings gives rise, more or less continuously, to extremely small electrobiopotentials periodically varying in magnitude. Electrophysiological techniques amplify, filter, and record these biopotentials; and psychophysiologists employ them to assess physiological organ function and, in biofeedback, to treat somatic (i.e., psychophysiological) disorders by self-regulation methods.
I have contended that the sanative principle is in the man, and is involved in the electro-nervous fluid, which is the positive force breathed in from the atmosphere....
—John B. Dods
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Fried, R., Grimaldi, J. (1993). In Conclusion. In: The Psychology and Physiology of Breathing. The Springer Series in Behavioral Psychophysiology and Medicine. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-1239-8_10
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