Real-time functional MRI neurofeedback: A tool for psychiatry

Current Opinion in Psychiatry

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 332-336

  Kim, Sunjung ^a   Birbaumer, Niels ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b SAN CAMILLO FORLANINI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

brain self regulation; neurofeedback; psychological disorders; real time functional MRI; therapeutic tool

Indexed keywords

AUTOREGULATION; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BRAIN REGION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MENTAL DISEASE; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NEUROFEEDBACK; PSYCHIATRY; REVIEW; BRAIN MAPPING; IMAGE PROCESSING; MENTAL DISORDERS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROCEDURES;

BRAIN MAPPING; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MENTAL DISORDERS; NEUROFEEDBACK;

EID: 84905575020     PISSN: 09517367     EISSN: 14736578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/YCO.0000000000000087     Document Type: Review

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