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ArticleFrontiers in integrative neuroscience2020

Distinct Insular Functional Connectivity Changes Related to Mood and Fatigue Improvements in Major Depressive Disorder Following Tai Chi Training: A Pilot Study.

Anna Xu, Chloe S Zimmerman, Sara W Lazar, Yan Ma, Catherine E Kerr, Albert Yeung

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Article in Frontiers in integrative neuroscience, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
9citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
0.8field-weighted citation impact, top 30% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Anna XuDepartment of Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences, Brown University, Providence, RI, United States.
Chloe S ZimmermanDepartment of Neuroscience, Brown University, Providence, RI, United States.
Sara W LazarDepartment of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, United States.
Yan MaHarvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States.
Catherine E KerrAlpert Medical School, Brown University, Providence, RI, United States.
Albert YeungDepression Clinical and Research Program, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States.
Brown University · USHarvard University · USBeth Israel Deaconess Medical Center · US

Funding

Research Training in Complementary and Integrative MedicineT32AT000051 · NCCIH · HARVARD UNIVERSITY (MEDICAL SCHOOL) · PI GLORIA Y YEH · 1999 to 2026
$10.2M
Neural and cognitive changes associated with mindfulness training in older adultsR01AG048351 · NIA · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI DICKERSON, BRADFORD C, LAZAR, SARA W · 2015 to 2019
$4.0M
NCCIH NIH HHS T32 AT000051NIA NIH HHS R01 AG048351
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

fatigueinsulainteroceptionmajor depressive disordermoodresting-state functional connectivityTai Chivitality

Identifiers

PMID32581734
PMCPMC7295154
OpenAlexW3031481892

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