FMRI neurofeedback of amygdala response to aversive stimuli enhances prefrontal-limbic brain connectivity

NeuroImage

Volumn 125, Issue , 2016, Pages 182-188

  Paret, Christian ^a,c   Ruf, Matthias ^a,c   Gerchen, Martin Fungisai ^a,b,c   Kluetsch, Rosemarie ^a,c   Demirakca, Traute ^a,c   Jungkunz, Martin ^a,c   Bertsch, Katja ^c   Schmahl, Christian ^a,c   Ende, Gabriele ^a,c  

^a Department Neuroimaging ^*  (Germany)

^b Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Heidelberg Mannheim   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Brain connectivity; Emotion; FMRI neurofeedback; VmPFC

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; AUTOREGULATION; AVERSION; BAYES THEOREM; BOLD SIGNAL; CAUSAL MODELING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIMBIC CORTEX; NEUROFEEDBACK; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VENTROMEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; VISUAL CORTEX; AMYGDALA; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EMOTION; NERVE TRACT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; BRAIN MAPPING; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIMBIC LOBE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROFEEDBACK; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84945930457     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.10.027     Document Type: Article

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