The morphology of midcingulate cortex predicts frontal-midline theta neurofeedback success

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue JUL, 2013, Pages

  Enriquez Geppert, Stefanie ^a,b   Huster, René J ^a   Scharfenort, Robert ^a   Mokom, Zacharais N ^a   Vosskuhl, Johannes ^a   Figge, Christian ^b   Zimmermann, Jörg ^b   Herrmann, Christoph S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^b European Medical School   (Germany)

Author keywords

Brain structure; Cingulate bundle; Fm theta enhancement; Midcingulate cor tex; Neurofeedback success

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; CINGULATE GYRUS; COGNITION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR FRONTAL CORTEX; MALE; MIDCINGULATE CORTEX; MIDDLE FRONTAL CORTEX; NEUROFEEDBACK; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SUPERIOR FRONTAL CORTEX; TASK PERFORMANCE; THETA RHYTHM; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 84933675923     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00453     Document Type: Article

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