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Biofeedback may control disease
By BRYANTGRIGGS
Staff Writer
In 1974 more than 23 million adults had high blood pressure. Only 50 per cent knew they had it. The aliment is most widespread among blacks, possibly because of genetics
notedback, a way to control the physiological functions of the body, might soon be the solution to one of America's major causes of death—high blood pressure.
For the past 15 years, medical researchers have used biodefeedback to try to increase control over the entire body, but recently at the University of Kansas biodefeed has been aimed at controlling high blood pressure.
Through biofeedback training experiments, KU psychology students soon will be able to voluntarily control their own behavior. In the course, professor of psychology said recently.
THE EXPERIMENT, based on last spring's tests at KU on the effects of biobfeed training to control blood glucose research started three years ago.
This month, the department of psychology was offered a $682 grant from the Public Health Service, effective Oct. 15, to continue biofeedback experiments.
Biofeedback essentially involves using
electronic devices to detect and monitor physiological activities in the body.
The subject learns to control the actions on the monitor by using his mental and internal responses, and the result is a learned, voluntary control over internal
TO ACHIEVE success from the experiment, the subject must continuously get information (feedback) on his current internal body functions. The more information, the easier it is to learn to control the body functions.
"A lot of our bodily functions are not under voluntary control. You can't learn to control any part of your body function or you won't get no feedback on them," Holmes said.
in past experiments, more than 100 students were trained for 40 minutes to lower, maintain or increase their blood pressure. The subjects increased their blood pressure considerably but could lower it only slightly.
WITH MORE training, there should be more effective results, Holmes said. In coming experiments the subjects will train primarily to lower their blood pressures.
The experiments, scheduled in about two weeks, will be conducted at Fraser Hall. The subjects will train for four consecutive days in one-hour sessions.
These experiments will register the subject's blood pressure every six seconds,
The first, the experiment is set up to measure the subject's blood pressure, heart rate and skin resistance. Blood pressure is most important, be said.
A MICROPHONE built into the canvas that wraps around the subject's arm during a blood pressure examination will transmit the subject's blood pressure on a polygraph, which measures physiological activity in the subject to the subject on closed-circuit television every six seconds.
"We don't tell them how to do it," Holmes said. "Sometimes we teach them to use muscle exercises, but usually subjects just trx to wine everything out of their minds."
When the subject's blood pressure is less than 120 millimeters, blood pressure is normal. However, if it continually over stresses of a heart attack or stroke is increased.
When the subject sees that his blood falls to 50 mm on the screen, he must mentally re-read it.
and he will try his best to lower it, Holmes said.
He said some subjects may use meditation methods called "non-sense aroused," where subjects simply hum to keep their minds as open as possible. The trick is
Rhythmic brain transmissions were discovered about 50 years ago by Hans Berger, a German psychiatrist, who gave the name to each of the characteristic
pattern. The most unmistakable is the pattern of a woman when a person is resting with his eyes closed.
MORE ALPHA WAVES are received when the subject releases or clears his mind. When individuals stop directing their attention to stimuli, attmul, alpha transmission increases.
Although the brain transmits two other waves, beta and theta, the biofeedback experiments on blood pressure deal with only alpha waves. Beta is the state in which the heart rate is between 80 and 120 beats is an even deeper relaxation than the alpha wave, when the person is almost aleep.
Besides high blood pressure, biofeedback also has had significant influence on other health problems, such as tension and migraine headaches, cardiac irregularities, peripermanual vascular disease, gastric ulcers, insomnia, epilepsy, asthma, learning problems in children and other medical and psychological problems.
Holmes said he was skeptical about subjects mastering the biofeedback methods and being able to control their heart rate. He used the use of the electronic feedback devices.
"Supposedly, the subjects should still be able to voluntarily control their blood pressure, but no tests have been done to see if they are true," he said. "Research is still needed."
Disco's neighbors air complaints
By CAROL LUMAN
Staff Writer
The discotheque, Shonanian's, opened several weeks ago and commissioner's have invited guests. The club is free to visit.
Ordering "Kissinger-like" negotiations, the Lawrence City Commission last night delayed action on what it called a problem area. The city discounte at 9th and street streets.
Last night area residents appeared before the commission to protest. The residents said they didn't object to the dishethose, and the commission problems and the trash that came with it.
The 50 parking places adjacent to the disco aren't adequate to handle the crowds, they said, and the spillover creates problems in the neighborhood.
MANY OF THE problems were likened by commissioners to the after-game crowd difficulties at the bars near 14th and Ohio streets.
Both the commissioners and the area residents agreed that there should be a meeting to work out the problems before formal nuisance complaints were filed. Commissioner Barkley Clark suggested that City Manager Buford Watson had demerged areas, residents, police, city management and the disco's management.
At that meeting, action similar to the plan that apparently has worked at the 14th and 15th sessions is required.
IN OTHER BUSINESS, the commission that were deplotted at last week's meeting.
A request to rezone part of a block from 1329 to 1347 Massachusetts St. from multiple-family residential to general-commercial was defeated. Four commissioners voted against the rezoning and Mayor Fred Pence abstained.
TO REZONE THAT area, commercial,
the said, would destroy a historical area of the
area.
A number of residents appeared before the commission to oppose the rezoning because, they said, the move would start a chain reaction that wouldn't end until all of Massachusetts Street from 13th to 19th street would be rezoned commercial.
"Massachusetts Street is a big asset to the city of Lawrence, and we do not want it to become like 23d Street," Anabel Hart, 1502 Massachusetts St., said.
are used as general-commercial by means of a temporary-use permit.
Although the area currently is zoned multiple-family residential, some of the lots
Dean Burkhead, attorney for the landowner, Clara Cee, said the area had been used as commercial property for 120 years and was zoned residential only because of an "arbitrary stroke of the pen" when the city adopted its zoning ordinance.
The other rezoning issue that appeared before the commissioners last night was decided in favor of the applicants. The commission, in agreement with the office-office of 1.03 acres at the northwest corner of Country Club Terrace and Sixth Street.
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