Upregulation of the Rostral Anterior Cingulate Cortex can Alter the Perception of Emotions: fMRI-Based Neurofeedback at 3 and 7 T

Brain Topography

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 197-207

  Grone M ^a   Dyck, M ^a   Koush, Y ^b,c   Bergert, S ^a   Mathiak, K A ^a   Alawi, E M ^a   Elliott, M ^d   Mathiak, K ^a,e  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^e JARA Jülich Aachen Research Alliance Future Information Technology   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anterior cingulate cortex; Arousal; Emotions; High field fMRI; Neurofeedback; Prosody; Real time fMRI; Valence

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ADULT; BLOOD; BRAIN CIRCULATION; BRAIN MAPPING; CINGULATE GYRUS; DEVICES; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROFEEDBACK; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROFEEDBACK; OXYGEN; PERCEPTION;

EID: 84939882886     PISSN: 08960267     EISSN: 15736792     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10548-014-0384-4     Document Type: Article

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