Thesis (B.A. Hons.))--University of Adelaide, Dept. of Psychology, 1975.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of North Texas, August, 2008. / Title from title page display. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.S.)--University of North Texas, 2000. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 43-46). Also available online (PDF file) by a subscription to the set or by purchasing the individual file.

Thesis supervisors: Michael L. Spector, Deborah V. Dawson. Includes bibliographic references (p. 66-70).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 99-111). Also available online (PDF file) by a subscription to the set or by purchasing the individual file.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 99-111).

Five studies were performed to explore the feasibility of treating severe chronic stuttering with EMG feedback. EMG spiking from the throat was found to correlate with stuttering, and to differentiate between stuttering and fluent speech. EMG spiking tended to disappear when stuttering was reduced by metronome-paced speech and by speech therapy. Likewise, when EMG spiking was reduced by feedback training, stuttering was concurrently reduced. Presentation of the feedback tone without instructions or information produced no reduction in stuttering or EMG spiking. Pseudofeedback was also generally ineffective. It was concluded that the feedback effect is apparently not an artifact of instructions, masking, distraction, adaptation, slowing of speech, or of a stutter-contingent aversive tone, nor is it a Hawthorne or placebo effect. Implications of the results are discussed. / Arts, Faculty of / Psychology, Department of / Graduate

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The repeated-measures experimental design utilized in the present study permitted a controlled comparison of the clinical efficacy of meditation treatment (MT), biofeedback treatment (BT), and pharmacological control (PC) conditions in the reduction of seven dependent variables: (1) within clinic (W-C) systolic blood pressure (SBP), (2) W-C diastolic blood pressure (DBP), (3) outside-clinic (0-C) SEP, (4) 0-C DBP, (5) within-session (W-S) SEP, (6) W-S DBP, and (7) antihypertensive medication requirements. Twenty-four medicated subjects with medically .verified essential hypertension were matched by rank-order on sex, age, and mean baseline levels of SBP and DBP, and randomly assigned to MT, BT, or PC conditions, each composed of five females and three males.