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ArticlePsychological science2021

Functional MRI Can Be Highly Reliable, but It Depends on What You Measure: A Commentary on Elliott et al. (2020).

Philip A Kragel, Xiaochun Han, Thomas E Kraynak, Peter J Gianaros, Tor D Wager

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Article in Psychological science, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 85 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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85citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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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

85 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Philip A KragelDepartment of Psychology, Emory University.ORCID 0000-0001-9463-6381
Xiaochun HanDepartment of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Dartmouth College.
Thomas E KraynakDepartment of Psychology, Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, University of Pittsburgh.
Peter J GianarosDepartment of Psychology, Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, University of Pittsburgh.
Tor D WagerDepartment of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Dartmouth College.

Funding

Substrates of Threat and Reward Sensitivity and CVD RiskP01HL040962 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI ERICKSON, KIRK I · 1988 to 2022
$31.1M
CARDIOVASCULAR BEHAVIORAL MEDICINE RESEARCH TRAININGT32HL007560 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI Peter J Gianaros, REBECCA C THURSTON · 1985 to 2026
$11.3M
The Neural Bases of Placebo Effects and their Relation to Regulatory ProcessesR01MH076136 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO · PI WAGER, TOR D. · 2007 to 2023
$8.5M
Dynamic brain representations underlying emotional experienceR01MH116026 · NIMH · DARTMOUTH COLLEGE · PI CHANG, LUKE JOSEPH · 2018 to 2025
$4.9M
Individualized spatial topology in functional neuroimagingR01EB026549 · NIBIB · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI Abhirup Datta, Martin Lindquist · 2018 to 2026
$4.5M
Brain and Genetic Predictors of Individual Differences in Pain and Placebo AnalgesiaR01DA046064 · NIDA · UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO · PI FRIEDMAN, NAOMI P., WAGER, TOR D. · 2018 to 2022
$3.2M
The neural bases of placebo effects and their relation to regulatory processesR37MH076136 · NIMH · DARTMOUTH COLLEGE · PI TOR D. WAGER · 2024 to 2026
$2.4M
NHLBI NIH HHS P01 HL040962NHLBI NIH HHS T32 HL007560NIBIB NIH HHS R01 EB026549NIDA NIH HHS R01 DA046064NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH076136NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH116026NIMH NIH HHS R37 MH076136
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Magnetic Resonance ImagingHumans

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PMID33685310
PMCPMC8258303

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