title: Some professional and scientific problems and opportunities for biofeedback.
abstract: This paper will deal with a variety of topics such as dangers and opportunities from the developing crisis in health care costs, a cooperative study of the cost-effectiveness of treatments for headaches, the need for a federation of related societies, exploiting remarkable electronic advances, the wide range of adaptive functions of visceral learning (including its role in homeostasis), why maladjustments occur and their implications for biofeedback, and the need for analytic experiments involving adequate amounts of training.
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000275:Adjustment Disorders / Q000628:therapy; D001676:Biofeedback, Psychology; D003216:Conditioning, Operant; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000191:economics; D004581:Electronics; D006706:Homeostasis; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning / Q000502:physiology; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D011364:Professional Practice