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BioSource Faculty
- May 12
- 7 min
Drug Effects on Heart Rate Variability
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(1)Reviewing a list of the medications and social drugs your client is currently taking is essential. They can individually and...
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BioSource Faculty
- Apr 27
- 7 min
Breathing Basics - Part 2: Assessment
Breathing assessment should always precede HRV biofeedback because dysfunctional breathing can frustrate training success. Clinicians may...
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BioSource Faculty
- Apr 10
- 33 min
Neuroscience Breakthroughs Since Graduate School - Part 6: Emotion
Neuroscience research in the last decades has fundamentally changed our understanding of emotion. Bottom-up and top-down pathways...
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BioSource Faculty
- Apr 8
- 2 min
BCIA Recertification for Smart People
BCIA requires certificants to complete 48 hours of accredited continuing education (30 hours for Senior Fellows) every 4 years that their...
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BioSource Faculty
- Apr 2
- 6 min
Strategies for Entering the Field
You are a licensed healthcare provider or optimal performance coach who wants to add biofeedback to your practice but are overwhelmed by...
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BioSource Faculty
- Mar 24
- 6 min
Breathing Basics - Part 1: Anatomy and Physiology
Breathing ensures healthy CO2 levels. The main functions of breathing are gas exchange and acid-base (pH) regulation. The respiratory...
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BioSource Faculty
- Mar 19
- 18 min
Neuroscience Breakthroughs Since Graduate School - Part 6: Stress
Recent studies have challenged core stress concepts taught in graduate classes. We cannot turn off our physiological reactions to...
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Fred Shaffer
- Feb 24
- 7 min
Dr. Moss on Mentoring, Supervision, and Consultation
BCIA requires mentoring as an educational process for individuals seeking BCIA certification. BCIA requires clinical supervision for...
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BioSource Faculty
- Jan 24
- 7 min
Zachary Meehan on Childhood Trauma
Events are traumatic when they involve harm or threat of harm to oneself or others (McLaughlin et al., 2014). Childhood trauma is a...
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BioSource Faculty
- Jan 17
- 6 min
Dr. Hughes on You've Got What It Takes: Become a Biofeedback Mentor
I have been teaching biofeedback to licensed clinicians for a long time. I have always encouraged my biofeedback therapists-in-training...
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BioSource Faculty
- Dec 28, 2022
- 19 min
Neuroscience Breakthroughs Since Graduate School - Part 5: Depression
Since major depressive disorder (MDD) is a heterogeneous disorder, researchers study its diverse phenotypes. Heritability ranges from 26%...
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BioSource Faculty
- Dec 17, 2022
- 9 min
BCIA Biofeedback Essential Skills: EMG
The surface electromyogram (EMG) is an indispensable tool for evaluating and training clients for chronic pain, headache, hypertension,...
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BioSource Faculty
- Dec 7, 2022
- 15 min
Neuroscience Breakthroughs Since Graduate School - Part 2: Addiction
Addiction inevitably involves loss, including executive functions, health, pleasure from everyday life, productivity, and often...
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BioSource Faculty
- Dec 3, 2022
- 12 min
Rethinking the Resonance Frequency (RF) - Part 2: Slow-Paced Breathing
Resonance frequency (RF) assessment identifies the stimulation frequency producing the greatest amplitude heart rate oscillations in one...
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BioSource Faculty
- Nov 25, 2022
- 13 min
Neuroscience Breakthroughs Since Graduate School - Part 1: Sleep
Behavioral neuroscience discoveries have proceeded at a rapid pace. This series highlights cutting-edge findings and explains their...
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Fred Shaffer
- Jul 27, 2022
- 2 min
EMG Values Are Relative and Why This Matters
Whereas two different feedback thermometers should register the same room temperature, we can't assume the same for two electromyographs'...
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Fred Shaffer
- Jul 27, 2022
- 1 min
Why You Should Place EMG Sensors on the Muscle Belly
Clinicians place active electrodes over the target muscle belly (i.e., central region) to record its full voltage. Graphic adapted from...
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