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Neural Correlates of Outcome of the Psychotherapy Compared to Antidepressant Therapy in Anxiety and Depression Disorders: A Meta-Analysis

Overview of attention for article published in Frontiers in Psychology, June 2017
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Title
Neural Correlates of Outcome of the Psychotherapy Compared to Antidepressant Therapy in Anxiety and Depression Disorders: A Meta-Analysis
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Frontiers in Psychology, June 2017
DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00927
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Navkiran Kalsi, Daniela Altavilla, Renata Tambelli, Paola Aceto, Cristina Trentini, Chiara Di Giorgio, Carlo Lai

Abstract

The most prevalent mental disorders, anxiety and depression, are commonly associated with structural and functional changes in the fronto-limbic brain areas. The clinical trials investigating patients with affective disorders showed different outcome to different treatments such as psychotherapy or pharmacotherapy. It is, however, still unexplored how these interventions approach affect the functional brain. This meta-analysis aims to compare the effects of psychotherapy compared to antidepressant therapy on functional brain activity in anxiety and depression disorders. Twenty-one samples with psychotherapy and seventeen samples with antidepressant therapy were included. The main finding showed an inverse effect of the two treatments on the right paracingulate activity. The patients undergoing psychotherapy showed an increase in the right paracingulate activity while pharmacological treatment led to a decrease of activation of this area. This finding seems to support the recent studies that hypothesize how psychotherapy, through the self-knowledge and the meaning processing, involves a top-down emotional regulation.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Ireland 1 1%
Brazil 1 1%
Unknown 65 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 8 12%
Researcher 8 12%
Student > Bachelor 8 12%
Student > Master 7 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 7 10%
Other 13 19%
Unknown 16 24%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 27 40%
Medicine and Dentistry 9 13%
Neuroscience 7 10%
Unspecified 2 3%
Nursing and Health Professions 2 3%
Other 2 3%
Unknown 18 27%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 7. 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 19 June 2021.
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#5,536,304
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#89,014
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