Can we predict real-time fMRI neurofeedback learning success from pretraining brain activity?

ABSTRACT: Neurofeedback training has been shown to influence behavior in healthy participants as well as to alleviate clinical symptoms in neurological, psychosomatic, and psychiatric patient populations. However, many real-time fMRI neurofeedback studies report large inter-individual differences in learning success. The factors that cause this vast variability between participants remain unknown and their identification could enhance treatment success. Thus, here we employed a meta-analytic approach including data from 24 different neurofeedback studies with a total of 401 participants, including 140 patients, to determine whether levels of activity in target brain regions during pretraining functional localizer or no-feedback runs (i.e., self-regulation in the absence of neurofeedback) could predi

SUBMITTER: Haugg A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7469782 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature