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Trial reportDepression and anxiety2025

Brain Structural and Functional Neuroimaging Features are Associated With Improved Auditory Hallucinations in Patients With Schizophrenia After Real-Time fMRI Neurofeedback.

Jiahe Zhang, Emma Tusuzian, Francesca Morfini, Clemens C C Bauer, Lena Stone, Angelina Awad, Ann K Shinn, Margaret A Niznikiewicz, Susan Whitfield-Gabrieli

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Trial report in Depression and anxiety, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Jiahe ZhangDepartment of Psychology, Northeastern University, Boston 02115, Massachusetts, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7520-074X
Emma TusuzianDepartment of Psychology, Northeastern University, Boston 02115, Massachusetts, USA.
Francesca MorfiniDepartment of Psychology, Northeastern University, Boston 02115, Massachusetts, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-0330-6131
Clemens C C BauerDepartment of Psychology, Northeastern University, Boston 02115, Massachusetts, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3481-4438
Lena StonePsychotic Disorders Division, McLean Hospital, Belmont 02478, Massachusetts, USA.
Angelina AwadDepartment of Psychiatry, Boston VA Healthcare System, Boston 02130, Massachusetts, USA.
Ann K ShinnDepartment of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston 02115, Massachusetts, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-5311-6280
Margaret A NiznikiewiczDepartment of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston 02115, Massachusetts, USA.
Susan Whitfield-GabrieliDepartment of Psychology, Northeastern University, Boston 02115, Massachusetts, USA.

Funding

Real-time fMRI Neurofeedback as a Tool to Mitigate Auditory Hallucinations in Patients with SchizophreniaR61MH113751 · NIMH · HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL · PI NIZNIKIEWICZ, MARGARET A, WHITFIELD-GABRIELI, SUSAN · 2018 to 2019
$1.4M
NIMH NIH HHS R61 MH113751
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Auditory hallucinations (AHs) are debilitating and often treatment-resistant symptoms of schizophrenia (SZ). Real-time functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) neurofeedback (NFB) is emerging as a flexible brain circuit-based tool for targeting AH via self-modulation of brain activity. A better understanding of what baseline characteristics predict NFB success will enhance its clinical utility. Previous work suggests that AH symptomology implicates measures across multiple modalities, including T1 structural MRI (sMRI), diffusion-weighted MRI (dMRI), and resting-state fMRI (rsfMRI). Specifically, AH severity and treatment response are associated with thinner superior temporal gyrus (STG), thinner dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC), reduced white matter integrity in tracts connecting brain regions implicated in SZ symptomatology, increased within-default mode network (DMN) connectivity, and reduced DMN-DLPFC anticorrelation. In this study, we tested the individual and combined contributions of multimodal brain features for the prediction of AH change after NFB in adults (

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BrainHallucinationsNeurofeedbackSchizophreniaAdultFemaleFunctional NeuroimagingHumansMagnetic Resonance ImagingMaleMiddle Aged

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PMCPMC11999755

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