Randomized Clinical Trial of Real-Time fMRI Amygdala Neurofeedback for Major Depressive Disorder: Effects on Symptoms and Autobiographical Memory Recall.

CONCLUSIONS: rtfMRI-nf training to increase the amygdala hemodynamic response to positive memories significantly decreased depressive symptoms and increased the percent of specific memories recalled on an autobiographical memory test. These data support a role of the amygdala in recovery from depression.
PMID: 28407727 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: The American Journal of Psychiatry - April 14, 2017 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Young KD, Siegle GJ, Zotev V, Phillips R, Misaki M, Yuan H, Drevets WC, Bodurka J Tags: Am J Psychiatry Source Type: research