Condition: Panic Attacks & Generalized Anxiety
- Assessment How does Advanced Biofeedback Center identify Anxiety?
- Behavioral Intervention How are Anxiety patients trained with biofeedback?
- Change in Behavior What are the goals of biofeedback training for Anxiety?
How does Advanced Biofeedback Center identify panic attacks and anxiety?
Those suffering from panic and anxiety may use described themselves as feeling nervous, worried, stressed, and/or overwhelmed. There appears to be an underlying physical mechanism associated with all of these descriptions. Physicians and behaviorists may refer to this undesirable mechanism as autonomic arousal or sympathetic activation (the fight-or-flight signals).
The Advanced Biofeedback Center can identify when the autonomic nervous system or sympathetic nervous system becomes activated.
- Your skin surface temperature will likely decrease because your blood vessels start to get smaller in diameter. Cold hands and cold feet are a good example of this stress response known as autonomic arousal.
- Your heart rate may also increase above your normal baseline.
- Your blood pressures will likely become elevated.
- You may experience some sweat gland activity, particularly in your hands, feet, and armpits.
- Autonomic arousal is even associated with certain types of prominent brain wave changes.