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Multi-Sensory Feedback Therapy for Oculomotor Dysfunction

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Models of the Visual System

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Biofeedback refers to the process of gaining voluntary control over some bodily function by immediate use of information regarding its physiological state. Thus, the individual is provided immediate information from biological processes normally beyond their awareness, thereby facilitating the regulation of these same functions (Brown, 1977; Wolf, 2001). The experimental applications of this technique have continued to grow, and the method has been used to control such disparate physiological processes as blood pressure, heart rate, muscle tension, brain wave activity, galvanic skin response, intestinal motility, and skin temperature (Fuller, 1978; Lee et al, 1977; Spilker, 1991). Biofeedback training has been used in the medical treatment of hypertension, cardiac arrhythmias, neuromuscular dysfunction, circulatory insufficiency, migraine, autonomic dysfunction, and chronic anxiety. The general biofeedback therapy paradigm is three-fold: (1) to provide information related to system variation/state that the individual learns to control, (2) to withdraw this information gradually, once control is well-learned, and (3) to provide occasional “reinforcement” using the prior auxiliary feedback information to maintain the newly-learned ability.

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  2. Dept. of Clinical Sciences, State University of New York, State College of Optometry, 33 West 42nd St., New York, NY, 10036, USA

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Ciuffreda, K.J., Tannen, B., Rutner, D. (2002). Multi-Sensory Feedback Therapy for Oculomotor Dysfunction. In: Hung, G.K., Ciuffreda, K.J. (eds) Models of the Visual System. Topics in Biomedical Engineering International Book Series. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-5865-8_21

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