The research progress of real-time fMRI neurofeedback
MA Lijia
SHI Dapeng
GUAN Min
Abstract：Real-time functional MRI (rtfMRI) allows immediately accessing the experimental results by analyzing data during acquisition. The availability of results during the ongoing experiment facilitates a variety of applications such as quality assurance or fast functional localization. This review focuses on the research progress of real-time fMRI in neurofeedback. The rtfMRI neurofeedback has been used to train self-regulation of the local BOLD response in different brain areas through feeding back information of brain activity and to study consequential behavioral effects. Behavioral effects such as modulation of pain, improving the symptoms of tinnitus, detecting lies, regulating the brain areas of motor, and adjusting the emotions have been shown in healthy and/or patient populations. The rtfMRI neurofeedback provides a new paradigm for studying the relationship between brain behavior and physiology. The initial results are encouraging to merit further controlled clinical studies.
Keywords：Real-time fMRIBlood oxygen level-dependentNeurofeedbackSelf-regulation
Publication Date：2014-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：5( 216-220 )