1. There is only one type of biofeedback machine.
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2. Biofeedback techniques require the use of a monitoring instrument.
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False

3. Biofeedback is used to help people learn to relax.
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4. Biofeedback techniques provide individuals with physiologic information that allows them to reliably influence psychophysiological responses of two kinds: Responses not ordinarily under voluntary control and, responses that ordinarily are easily regulated, but for which regulation has broken down.
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False

5. Biofeedback can help people control blood pressure, heart rate, temperature, muscle tension, and brain waves.
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False

6. Electromyography, electroencephalography, thermometers, and galvanometry are used in biofeedback.
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7. Biofeedback techniques often induce responses similar to those of other relaxation techniques.
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8. A person learning thermal biofeedback wears a device, which transmits the temperature of an index finger or hand to a monitor.
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9. In biofeedback that used electromyographic or EMG training, the person learns to control muscle tension in the face, neck, and shoulders.
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10. Biofeedback may help relieve pain, especially migraine headache.
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11. Biofeedback can not help alleviate insomnia.
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12. According to the U.S. Food & Drug Administration, a biofeedback device is an instrument that provides a visual or auditory signal corresponding to the status of one or more of a patient's physiological parameters (e.g., brain alpha wave activity, muscle activity, skin temperature, etc.) so that the patient can control voluntarily these physiological parameters.
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13. All biofeedback devices are subject to premarket notification requirements by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration.
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14. The U.S. Food & Drug Administration does not consider biofeedback instruments as medical devices.
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False

15. Once a person learns biofeedback, he or she must always use the biofeedback instrument.
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