Using functional magnetic resonance imaging in psychotherapy research: A brief introduction to concepts, methods, and task selection

Psychotherapy Research

Volumn 19, Issue 4-5, 2009, Pages 409-417

  Carrig, Madeline M ^a   Kolden, Gregory G ^b   Strauman, Timothy J ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Neuroscience; Technology in psychotherapy research and training

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

BRAIN; HUMAN; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOMETRY; PSYCHOTHERAPY; REVIEW; STATISTICS;

BRAIN; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OXYGEN; PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOMETRICS; PSYCHOTHERAPY;

EID: 77949550175     PISSN: 10503307     EISSN: 14684381     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10503300902735864     Document Type: Article

References (58)

1. Aron, A. R., Gluck, M. A., and Poldrack, R. A. (2006). Long-term test-retest reliability of functional MRI in a classification learning task. Neuro Image, 29, 1000-1006.
2. Bandettini, P. A., Jesmanowicz, A., Wong, E. C., and Hyde, J. S. (1993). Processing strategies for time-course data sets in functional MRI of the human brain. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 30, 161-173.
3. Bell, A. J., and Sejnowski, T. J. (1995). An information-maximi zation approach to blind separation and blind deconvolution. Neural Computation, 7, 1129-1159.
4. Brenner, H. D., Roder, V., and Tschacher, W. (2006). The significance of psychotherapy in the age of neuroscience. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 32, S10-S11.
5. Buxton, R. B. (2002). Introduction to functional magnetic resonance imaging: Principles and techniques. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
6. Cacioppo, J. T., Berntson, G. G., Lorig, T. S., Norris, C. J., Rickett, E., and Nusbaum, H. (2003). Just because you’re imaging the brain doesn’t mean you can stop using your head: A primer and set of first principles. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 85, 650-661.
7. Chee, M. W., Lee, H. L., Soon, C. S., Westphal, C., and Venkatraman, V. (2003). Reproducibility of the word frequency effect: Comparison of signal change and voxel counting. NeuroImage, 18, 468-482.
8. Comon, P. (1994). Independent component analysis: A new concept? Signal Processing, 36, 11-20.
9. Cordes, D., Haughton, V., Carew, J. D., Arfanakis, K., and Maravilla, K. (2002). Hierarchical clustering to measure connectivity in fMRI resting-state data. Magnetic Resonance Imaging, 20, 305-317.
10. Etkin, A., Pittenger, C., Polan, H. J., and Kandel, E. R. (2005). Toward a neurobiology of psychotherapy: Basic science and clinical applications. Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, 17, 145-158.
11. Frewen, P. A., Dozois, D. J. A., and Lanius, R. A. (2008). Neuroimaging studies of psychological interventions for mood and anxiety disorders: Empirical and methodological review. Clinical Psychology Review, 28, 228-246.
12. Friedman, L., Stern, H., Brown, G. G., Mathalon, D. H., Turner, J., Glover, G. H., et al. (2008). Test-retest and between-site reliability in a multicenter fMRI study. Human Brain Mapping, 29, 958-972.
13. Friston, K. J., Holmes, A. P., Worsley, K. J., Poline, J.-B., Frith, C. D., and Frackowiak, R. S. J. (1995). Statistical parametric maps in functional imaging: A general linear approach. Human Brain Mapping, 2, 189-210.
14. Genovese, C. R., Noll, D. C., and Eddy, W. F. (1997). Estimating test-retest reliability in functional MR imaging: I. Statistical methodology. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 38, 497-507.
15. Gotlib, I. H., and Hamilton, J. P. (2008). Neuroimaging and depression: Current status and unresolved issues. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 17, 159-163.
16. Huettel, S. A., Song, A. W., and McCarthy, G. (2004). Functional magnetic resonance imaging. Sunderland, MA: Sinauer Associates.
17. Jackson, D. C., Malmstadt, J. R., Larson, C. L., and Davidson, R. J. (2000). Suppression and enhancement of emotional responses to unpleasant pictures. Psychophysiology, 37, 515-522.
18. Johnstone, T., van Reekum, C. M., Urry, H. L., Kalin, N. H., and Davidson, R. J. (2007). Failure to regulate: Counterproductive recruitment of top-down prefrontal-subcortical circuitry in major depression. Journal of Neuroscience, 27, 8877-8884.
19. Kazdin, A. E. (2007). Mediators and mechanisms of change in psychotherapy research. Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, 3, 1-27.
20. Kiehl, K. A., and Liddle, P. F. (2003). Reproducibility of the hemodynamic response to auditory oddball stimuli: A six-week test-retest study. Human Brain Mapping, 18, 42-52.
21. Kim, J., Zhu, W., Chang, L., Bentler, P. M., and Ernst, T. (2007). Unified structural equation modeling approach for the analysis of multisubject, multivariate functional MRI data. Human Brain Mapping, 28, 85-93.
22. Kong, J., Gollub, R. L., Webb, J. M., Kong, J. T., Vangel, M. G., and Kwong, K. (2007). Test-retest study of fMRI signal change evoked by electroacupuncture stimulation. NeuroImage, 34, 1171-1181.
23. Kurland, J., Naeser, M. A., Baker, E. H., Doron, K., Martin, P. I., Seekins, H. E., et al. (2004). Test-retest reliability of fMRI during nonverbal semantic decisions in moderate-severe nonfluent aphasia patients. Behavioural Neurology, 15, 87-97.
24. Logothetis, N. K. (2003). The underpinnings of the BOLD functional magnetic resonance imaging signal. The Journal of Neuroscience, 23, 3963-3971.
25. Logothetis, N. K., Pauls, J., Augath, M., Trinath, T., and Oeltermann, A. (2001). Neurophysiological investigation of the basis of the fMRI signal. Nature, 412, 150-157.
26. Loubinoux, I., Carel, C., Alary, F., Boulanouar, K., Viallard, G., Manelfe, C., et al. (2001). Within-session and between-session reproducibility of cerebral sensorimotor activation: A test-retest effect evidenced with functional magnetic resonance imaging. Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism, 21, 592-607.
27. Maitra, R., Roys, S. R., and Gullapalli, R. P. (2002). Test-retest reliability estimation of functional MRI data. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 48, 62-70.
28. Manoach, D. S., Halpern, E. F., Kramer, T. S., Chang, Y., Goff, D. C., Rauch, S. L., et al. (2001). Test-retest reliability of a functional MRI working memory paradigm in normal and schizophrenic subjects. The American Journal of Psychiatry, 158, 955-958.
29. Marci, C., and Riess, H. (2005). The clinical relevance of psychophysiology: Support for the psychobiology of empathy and psychodynamic process. American Journal of Psychotherapy, 59, 213-226.
30. McGonigle, D. J., Howseman, A. M., Athwal, B. S., Friston, K. J., Frackowiak, R. S. J., and Holmes, A. P. (2000). Variability in fMRI: An examination of intersession differences. NeuroImage, 11, 708-734.
31. McKeown, M. J., Makeig, S., Brown, G. G., Jung, T.-P., Kindermann, S. S., Bell, A. J., and Sejnowski, T. J. (1998). Analysis of fMRI data by blind separation into independent spatial components. Human Brain Mapping, 6, 160-188.
32. Merrill, K. A., and Strauman, T. J. (2004). The role of personality in cognitive-behavioral therapies. Behavior Therapy, 35, 131-146.
33. Michell, J. (1999). Measurement in psychology: Critical history of a methodological concept. New York: Cambridge University Press.
34. Ochsner, K. N., Bunge, S. A., Gross, J. J., and Gabrieli, J. D. (2002). Rethinking feelings: An fMRI study of the cognitive regulation of emotion. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 14, 1215-1229.
35. Ochsner, K. N., Ray, R. D., Cooper, J. C., Robertson, E. R., Chopra, S., Gabrieli, J. D., and Gross, J. J. (2004). For better or worse: Neural systems supporting the cognitive down- and up-regulation of negative emotion. NeuroImage, 29, 483-499.
36. Ogawa, S., Lee, T. M., Nayak, A. S., and Glynn, P. (1990). Oxygenation-sensitive contrast in magnetic resonance image of rodent brain at high magnetic fields. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 14, 68-78.
37. Phan, K. L., Fitzgerald, D. A., Nathan, P. J., Moore, G. J., Uhde, T. W., and Tancer, M. E. (2005). Neural substrates for voluntary suppression of negative affect: A functional magnetic resonance imaging study. Biological Psychiatry, 57, 210-219.
38. Poldrack, R. A. (2007). Region of interest analysis for fMRI. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 2, 67-70.
39. Razavi, M., Grabowski, T. J., Vispoel, W. P., Monahan, P., Mehta, S., Eaton, B., and Bolinger, L. (2003). Model assessment and model building in fMRI. Human Brain Mapping, 20, 227-238.
40. Rizq, R. (2007). Tread softly: Counselling psychology and neuroscience. Counselling Psychology Review, 22, 5-18.
41. Roffman, J. L., Marci, C. D., Glick, D. M., Dougherty, D. D., and Rauch, S. L. (2005). Neuroimaging and the functional neuroanatomy of psychotherapy. Psychological Medicine, 35, 1385-1398.
42. Rombouts, S. A., Barkhof, F., Hoogenraad, F. G., Sprenger, M., Valk, J., and Scheltens, P. (1997). Test-retest analysis with functional MR of the activated area in the human visual cortex. American Journal of Neuroradiology, 18, 1317-1322.
43. Schaefer, S. M., Jackson, D. C., Davidson, R. J., Aquirre, G. K., Kimberg, D. Y., and Thompson-Schill, S. L. (2002). Modulation of amygdalar activity by the conscious regulation of negative emotion. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 14, 913-921.
44. Sereno, M. I., Dale, A. M., Reppas, J. R., Kwong, K. K., Belliveau, J. W., Brady, T. J., et al. (1995). Functional MRI reveals borders of multiple visual areas in humans. Science, 268, 889-893.
45. Shadish, W. R., Cook, T. D., and Campbell, D. T. (2002). Experi mental and quasi-experimental designs for generalized causal inference. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
46. Shaw, M. E., Strother, S. C., Gavrilescu, M., Podzebenko, K., Waites, A., Watson, J., et al. (2003). Evaluating subject specific preprocessing choices in multisubject fMRI data sets using data-driven performance metrics. NeuroImage, 19, 988-1001.
47. Shrout, P. E., and Fleiss, J. L. (1979). Intraclass correlations: Uses in assessing rater reliability. Psychological Bulletin, 86, 420-428.
48. Siegle, G. J., Ghinassi, F., and Thase, M. E. (2007). Neurobehavioral therapies in the 21st century: Summary of an emerging field and an extended example of cognitive control training for depression. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 31, 235-262.
49. Smith, S. M., Beckmann, C. F., Ramnani, N., Woolrich, M. W., Bannister, P. R., Jenkinson, M., et al. (2005). Variability in fMRI: A re-examination of inter-session differences. Human Brain Mapping, 24, 248-257.
50. Specht, K., Willmes, K., Shah, N. J., and Jancke, L. (2003). Assessment of reliability in functional imaging studies. Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, 17, 463-471.
51. Stark, R., Schienle, A., Walter, B., Kirsch, P., Blecker, C., and Ott, U. (2004). Hemodynamic effects of negative emotional pictures—A test-retest analysis. Neuropsychobiology, 50, 108-118.
52. Talairach, J., and Tournoux, P. (1988). Co-planar stereotaxic atlas of the human brain: 3-Dimensional proportional system—An approach to cerebral imaging. New York: Thieme Medical.
53. Urry, H. L., van Reekum, C. M., Johnstone, T., Kalin, N. H., Thurow, M. E., Schaefer, H. S., et al. (2006). Amygdala and ventromedial prefrontal cortex are inversely coupled during regulation of negative affect and predict the diurnal pattern of cortisol secretion among older adults. Journal of Neuroscience, 26, 4415-4425.
54. Venter, A., and Maxwell, S. E. (1999). Maximizing power in randomized designs when N is small. In R. H. Hoyle (Ed.), Statistical strategies for small sample research (pp. 31-58). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
55. Wei, X., Yoo, S. S., Dickey, C. C., Zou, K. H., Guttmann, C. R., and Panych, L. P. (2004). Functional MRI of auditory verbal working memory: Long-term reproducibility analysis. NeuroImage, 21, 1000-1008.
56. Wells, G. L., and Windschitl, P. D. (1999). Stimulus sampling and social psychological experimentation. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 25, 1115-1125.
57. Yoo, S. S., Wei, X., Dickey, C. C., Guttmann, C. R., and Panych, L. P. (2005). Long-term reproducibility analysis of fMRI using hand motor task. The International Journal of Neuroscience, 115, 55-77.
58. Zou, K. H., Greve, D. N., Wang, M., Pieper, S. D., Warfield, S. K., White, N. S., et al. (2005). Reproducibility of functional MR imaging: Preliminary results of prospective multi-institutional study performed by Biomedical Informatics Research Network. Radiology, 237, 781-789.