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| Title |
Real-time Neurofeedback Using Functional MRI Could Improve Down-Regulation of Amygdala Activity During Emotional Stimulation: A Proof-of-Concept Study
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| Published in |
Brain Topography, November 2013
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| DOI | 10.1007/s10548-013-0331-9 |
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| Authors |
Annette Beatrix Brühl, Sigrid Scherpiet, James Sulzer, Philipp Stämpfli, Erich Seifritz, Uwe Herwig |
| Abstract |
The amygdala is a central target of emotion regulation. It is overactive and dysregulated in affective and anxiety disorders and amygdala activity normalizes with successful therapy of the symptoms. However, a considerable percentage of patients do not reach remission within acceptable duration of treatment. The amygdala could therefore represent a promising target for real-time functional magnetic resonance imaging (rtfMRI) neurofeedback. rtfMRI neurofeedback directly improves the voluntary regulation of localized brain activity. At present, most rtfMRI neurofeedback studies have trained participants to increase activity of a target, i.e. up-regulation. However, in the case of the amygdala, down-regulation is supposedly more clinically relevant. Therefore, we developed a task that trained participants to down-regulate activity of the right amygdala while being confronted with amygdala stimulation, i.e. negative emotional faces. The activity in the functionally-defined region was used as online visual feedback in six healthy subjects instructed to minimize this signal using reality checking as emotion regulation strategy. Over a period of four training sessions, participants significantly increased down-regulation of the right amygdala compared to a passive viewing condition to control for habilitation effects. This result supports the concept of using rtfMRI neurofeedback training to control brain activity during relevant stimulation, specifically in the case of emotion, and has implications towards clinical treatment of emotional disorders. |
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| Country | Count | As % |
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| United States | 1 | 50% |
| Unknown | 1 | 50% |
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| Type | Count | As % |
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| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 50% |
| Members of the public | 1 | 50% |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
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| Portugal | 2 | <1% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | <1% |
| Germany | 1 | <1% |
| Cuba | 1 | <1% |
| Ireland | 1 | <1% |
| Canada | 1 | <1% |
| United States | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 229 | 96% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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| Student > Ph. D. Student | 44 | 18% |
| Student > Master | 39 | 16% |
| Researcher | 35 | 15% |
| Student > Bachelor | 32 | 13% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 12 | 5% |
| Other | 39 | 16% |
| Unknown | 37 | 16% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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| Psychology | 81 | 34% |
| Neuroscience | 37 | 16% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 20 | 8% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 10 | 4% |
| Engineering | 9 | 4% |
| Other | 24 | 10% |
| Unknown | 57 | 24% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 9. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 28 May 2017.
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