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Andrew Young, an art professor at Guilford has the opening of his show on Friday, March 15 from 7-9 p.m. The show, all painting and
drawings will be hanging in the Gallery until April 15.
Biofeedback Services Ignored
by Tracy Clark
The good people at the Biofeed
back Clinic are becoming con
cerned that a valuable service is
not being used as it should. The
concern is justified. Most people
on campus go about their daily
strife oblivious to Biofeedback
and its therapeutic qualities.
The Biofeedback Clinic is a ser
vice free to Guilford students and
faculty offered upstairs in King
Hall by the Psychology Depart
ment. The Clinic has hours every
day except Fridays and Satur
days. One of five student
trainers, attending to the Clinic
as an independent study, will
gladfully assist anyone seeking
an appointment for a Biofeed
back session.
Biofeedback arises in response
to a Western high-paced, stress
filled lifestyle as a way for people
to learn effective, personalized
relaxation techniques.
Audio indicators let people
monitor their own flow of blood,
brain waves and muscle activity.
Different mental exericses, like
daydreaming or academic ex
pository or sleeping, yield varied
result*, audially differentiated,
which allow people to control
bodily functions which are
primarily thought of as involun
tary. In this way people learn
what they have to do mentally, to
make themselves relax.
Guilford's Biofeedback Clinic
is equipped with three machines,
a temperature monitoring
device, an electro
encephalogram (EEG) and elec
CREA TIVE
tromygogram (EMG), each of
which delivers feedback.
The temperature monitoring
device measures blood flow in the
extremities of the body. A
temperature probe is connected
to one's hand or foot and the
temperature of blood flowing into
that area is monitored by meters
and also by sound. One's baseline
temperature doesn't register any
noise but temperature increases
sound a low-pitched beeping and
temperature decreases sound a
high-pitched beeping. When per
sons suffer anxiety or stress
blood flows to the heart or the
brain and less to the extremities.
A continuing series of high beeps
followed by silence and then by
low beeps means a person is
relaxed.
Similarly the EEG records
brain waves emitted by the brain.
The brain emits different types of
waves during different activities.
When a person is relaxed his or
her brain sends out alpha waves
(8 to 13 Hz). By electrodes attach
ed to the forehead, behind the ear
and at the base of the head, the
EEG can be set to monitor only
alpha waves, meaning that the
machine will sound static only
when alpha waves are picked up.
Static signals a state of relaxa
tion.
The EMG works on the same
principal as the temperature
monitoring device and the EEG.
Three electrodes are attached to
the forehead to monitor electrical
impulses sent forth through the
muscles by neurons contained
therein. Electrical impulses are
sent out all the time but when a
peson suffers from anxiety or
stress or excitement the frequen
cy and amplitude of the impulses
increase. The EMG grows louder
and more rapid as impulses in
crease. Impulses emitted in a
relaxed state create a pleasant
rhythmical series of tones. The
rhythm of quiet tones indicate
when a person is relaxed.
Each of the three machines can
be used to discover what works
for people trying to relax or what
it is which causes an unhealthy
amount of stress. Biofeedback is
a valuable clinical tool in this
way. Whatever mental gym
nastics make the temperature
monitoring device beep at a low
pitch, the EEG to sound 'white
noise', or the EMG to send forth
undulating sounds constitute a
highly personalized relaxation
technique/program one can in
corporate to stave off stress.
Contrary to popular belief
Biofeedback monitors what
comes out of, and doesn't feed
things into, the body. Students
and faculty alike are urged to
make use of the Clinic to discover
ways to circumvent anxiety and
become more effective in their
endeavours.
Whose Job Is It?
by Phil Polo
This is a story about four peo
ple named Everybody,
[Somebody, Anybody, and
Nobody. There as an important
job to be done and Everybody
was asked to do it. Everybody
was sure Somebody would do it.
Anybody could have done it, but
Nobody did it. Somebody got
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angry about that, because it was
Everybody's job. Everybody
thought Anybody could do it, but
Nobody realized that Everybody
wouldn't do it. It ended up that
Everybody blamed Somebody
when Nobody did what Anybody
could have done.
March 15, 1985