Real-time fMRI neurofeedback training of amygdala activity in patients with major depressive disorder

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Young, Kymberly D ^a   Zotev, Vadim ^a   Phillips, Raquel ^a   Misaki, Masaya ^a   Yuan, Han ^a   Drevets, Wayne C ^a,b   Bodurka, Jerzy ^a,c  

^a LAUREATE INSTITUTE FOR BRAIN RESEARCH   (United States)

^b JOHNSON AND JOHNSON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMORY; BRAIN FUNCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL TRAINING; HAPPINESS; HEMODYNAMICS; HORIZONTAL SEGMENT OF THE INTRAPARIETAL SULCUS; HUMAN; INTRAPARIETAL SULCUS; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; MOOD; NEUROFEEDBACK; REAL TIME FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING NEUROFEEDBACK TRAINING; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; TEMPORAL POLAR CORTEX; THALAMUS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECT; AMYGDALA; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN MAPPING; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROFEEDBACK; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84895743573     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0088785     Document Type: Article

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