<p></p><p><span style="font-size: 1rem;"><img src="@@PLUGINFILE@@/Thomas%20Budzynzki.jpeg" alt="Thoms Budzynski" width="300" height="248" class="atto_image_button_left"></span></p><p><span style=""><p style="font-size: 1rem;"><b>Thomas Hice Budzynski</b>&nbsp;(October 13, 1933 – February 14, 2011)&nbsp;was an American psychologist and a pioneer in the field of&nbsp;biofeedback, inventing one of the first&nbsp;electromyographic&nbsp;biofeedback&nbsp;training systems in the mid-1960s. In the early 1970s, he developed the Twilight Learner in collaboration with John Picchiottino. The Twilight Learner was one of the first neurotherapy systems.</p><p style="font-size: 1rem;">Budzynski earned a BSEE at the&nbsp;University of Detroit&nbsp;and served as an aerospace inertial systems engineer on the SR-71 Blackbird project at&nbsp;Area 51. He later received a master's and a PhD in psychology.</p><p style="font-size: 1rem;">Budzynski was a licensed&nbsp;psychologist&nbsp;in the State of&nbsp;Washington. He was an Affiliate Professor at the&nbsp;University of Washington&nbsp;in&nbsp;Seattle, where he also conducted&nbsp;neurotechnology&nbsp;research with his wife, Helen Kogan Budzynski. He conducted studies on the effects of audio-visual stimulation on the brain; the priming effects of&nbsp;binaural tones&nbsp;as measured by the&nbsp;EEG;&nbsp;chronic fatigue syndrome; and applications for&nbsp;chronic pain, enhanced academic performance, and the enhancement of&nbsp;cognitive processes&nbsp;in individuals with head injuries,&nbsp;learning disorders, and the&nbsp;elderly.</p><p style=""><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Budzynski's research and clinical findings were published in professional journals including: the Journal of Applied Behavioral Analysis; Experimental &amp; Clinical Psychopharmacology;</span><span style="font-size: 10.5px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 1rem;">the Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry; Biofeedback and Self-Control; Biofeedback: Behavioral Medicine;&nbsp;Psychosomatic Medicine; the Journal of Dental Research; Biofeedback and Self-Regulation; Consciousness and Self-Regulation;&nbsp;Psychology Today;</span><span style="font-size: 1rem;">&nbsp;Somatics; Education; the Journal of Neurotherapy; Applied Neurophysiology and Brainwave Biofeedback;&nbsp;Clinical Neurophysiology; and&nbsp;NeuroImage.</span></p><p style="font-size: 1rem;">Budzynski gave lectures at conferences, including several Annual Meetings of the Biofeedback Research Society; Annual Meetings of the&nbsp;American Psychological Association; Annual Meetings of the&nbsp;Association for Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback;&nbsp;Stanford University;&nbsp;University of Washington;&nbsp;Oxford University; the&nbsp;University of Munich; and the&nbsp;University of Düsseldorf, Germany.</p><p style="font-size: 1rem;">Budzynski developed a series of Life Management&nbsp;subliminal&nbsp;and priming&nbsp;recordings. Applying his research on brainwave activity, he created peak performance tools utilizing research and theory on&nbsp;brain lateralization, lateralized emotions, dual track brain messaging,&nbsp;binaural beats, and priming. These techniques are used in coping with&nbsp;psychological stress&nbsp;and&nbsp;anxiety, as well as enhancing&nbsp;memory,&nbsp;self-confidence,&nbsp;self-esteem&nbsp;and&nbsp;relaxation.</p><p style="font-size: 1rem;">He maintained a private practice of neurofeedback, biofeedback, and&nbsp;psychotherapy&nbsp;in his clinic in&nbsp;Poulsbo,&nbsp;Washington.</p><p style="font-size: 1rem;">Budzynski died suddenly of a heart attack on February 14, 2011.</p></span></p><p>See below a video interview of Budzynski from back in the day:</p><p><span style="font-size: 1rem;"><a href="https://youtu.be/mzs2g9y8K5A">https://youtu.be/mzs2g9y8K5A</a><br></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 1rem;"><br></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 1rem;"></span></p><p><br></p><p> </p>

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