- Panel: Biofeedback's Next Challenge: TheBasic Science of Consciousness Futurehealth WinterBrain Plenary presentation Panel The successes of biofeedack as a clinical tool have obscured its great promise in developing a basic science of the manner in which our feelings, hopes, images and thoughts--the stuff of our consciousness, are related to our brains and bodies. Biofeedback will play a key role in establishing trained introspection as an essential scientific procedure in human biology.