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

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Haugg, A; Sladky, R; Skouras, S; McDonald, A; Craddock, C; Kirschner, M; Herdener, M; Koush, Y; Papoutsi, M; Keynan, JN; Hendler, T; Zich, C ...
Published in: Hum Brain Mapp
October 1, 2020

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 predict neurofeedback learning success. We observed a slightly positive correlation between pretraining activity levels during a functional localizer run and neurofeedback learning success, but we were not able to identify common brain-based success predictors across our diverse cohort of studies. Therefore, advances need to be made in finding robust models and measures of general neurofeedback learning, and in increasing the current study database to allow for investigating further factors that might influence neurofeedback learning.

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Hum Brain Mapp

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EISSN

1097-0193

Publication Date

October 1, 2020

Volume

41

Issue

14

Start / End Page

3839 / 3854

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • Prognosis
  • Practice, Psychological
  • Neurofeedback
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Humans
  • Experimental Psychology
  • Brain Mapping
  • Brain
  • Adult
  • 5204 Cognitive and computational psychology
 

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Haugg, A., Sladky, R., Skouras, S., McDonald, A., Craddock, C., Kirschner, M., … Scharnowski, F. (2020). Can we predict real-time fMRI neurofeedback learning success from pretraining brain activity? Hum Brain Mapp, 41(14), 3839–3854. https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.25089
Haugg, Amelie, Ronald Sladky, Stavros Skouras, Amalia McDonald, Cameron Craddock, Matthias Kirschner, Marcus Herdener, et al. “Can we predict real-time fMRI neurofeedback learning success from pretraining brain activity?Hum Brain Mapp 41, no. 14 (October 1, 2020): 3839–54. https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.25089.
Haugg A, Sladky R, Skouras S, McDonald A, Craddock C, Kirschner M, et al. Can we predict real-time fMRI neurofeedback learning success from pretraining brain activity? Hum Brain Mapp. 2020 Oct 1;41(14):3839–54.
Haugg, Amelie, et al. “Can we predict real-time fMRI neurofeedback learning success from pretraining brain activity?Hum Brain Mapp, vol. 41, no. 14, Oct. 2020, pp. 3839–54. Pubmed, doi:10.1002/hbm.25089.
Haugg A, Sladky R, Skouras S, McDonald A, Craddock C, Kirschner M, Herdener M, Koush Y, Papoutsi M, Keynan JN, Hendler T, Cohen Kadosh K, Zich C, MacInnes J, Adcock RA, Dickerson K, Chen N-K, Young K, Bodurka J, Yao S, Becker B, Auer T, Schweizer R, Pamplona G, Emmert K, Haller S, Van De Ville D, Blefari M-L, Kim D-Y, Lee J-H, Marins T, Fukuda M, Sorger B, Kamp T, Liew S-L, Veit R, Spetter M, Weiskopf N, Scharnowski F. Can we predict real-time fMRI neurofeedback learning success from pretraining brain activity? Hum Brain Mapp. 2020 Oct 1;41(14):3839–3854.
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Published In

Hum Brain Mapp

DOI

EISSN

1097-0193

Publication Date

October 1, 2020

Volume

41

Issue

14

Start / End Page

3839 / 3854

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • Prognosis
  • Practice, Psychological
  • Neurofeedback
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Humans
  • Experimental Psychology
  • Brain Mapping
  • Brain
  • Adult
  • 5204 Cognitive and computational psychology