Training the social brain: Clinical and neural effects of an 8-week real-time functional magnetic resonance imaging neurofeedback Phase IIa Clinical Trial in Autism

B Direito, S Mouga, A Sayal, M Simões, H Quental… - …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Autism spectrum disorder is characterized by abnormal function in core social brain regions.
Here, we demonstrate the feasibility of real-time functional magnetic resonance imaging …

Insular dichotomy in the implicit detection of emotions in human faces

M Frot, F Mauguière, L Garcia-Larrea - Cerebral Cortex, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The functional roles of the insula diverge between its posterior portion (PI), mainly
connected with somato-sensory and motor areas, and its anterior section (AI) connected with …

Evidence for a general neural signature of face familiarity

A Dalski, G Kovács, GG Ambrus - Cerebral Cortex, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We explored the neural signatures of face familiarity using cross-participant and cross-
experiment decoding of event-related potentials, evoked by unknown and experimentally …

Using causal methods to map symptoms to brain circuits in neurodevelopment disorders: moving from identifying correlates to developing treatments

AL Cohen - Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders, 2022 - Springer
A wide variety of model systems and experimental techniques can provide insight into the
structure and function of the human brain in typical development and in neurodevelopmental …

Pushing the limits of EEG: estimation of large-scale functional brain networks and their dynamics validated by simultaneous fMRI

R Abreu, M Simões, M Castelo-Branco - Frontiers in neuroscience, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is the technique of choice for detecting large-
scale functional brain networks and to investigate their dynamics. Because fMRI measures …

Self-modulation of premotor cortex interhemispheric connectivity in a real-time functional magnetic resonance imaging neurofeedback study using an adaptive …

J Pereira, B Direito, A Sayal, C Ferreira… - Brain …, 2019 - liebertpub.com
Recent studies have reported on the feasibility of real-time functional magnetic resonance
imaging (rt-fMRI) neurofeedback (NF) training. Although modulation of blood oxygenation …

Self-regulation of the fusiform face area in autism spectrum: a feasibility study with real-time fMRI neurofeedback

JA Pereira, P Sepulveda, M Rana… - Frontiers in Human …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
One of the most important and early impairments in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is the
abnormal visual processing of human faces. This deficit has been associated with …

Successful modulation of temporoparietal junction activity and stimulus-driven attention by fNIRS-based neurofeedback—a randomized controlled proof-of-concept …

SH Kohl, P Melies, J Uttecht, M Lührs, L Bell… - Imaging …, 2023 - direct.mit.edu
The right temporoparietal junction (rTPJ) is a core hub in neural networks associated with
reorienting of attention and social cognition. However, it remains unknown whether …

Positive hysteresis in emotion recognition: Face processing visual regions are involved in perceptual persistence, which mediates interactions between anterior insula …

A Verdade, T Sousa, J Castelhano… - Cognitive, Affective, & …, 2022 - Springer
Facial emotion perception can be studied from the point of view of dynamic systems whose
output may depend not only on current input but also on prior history—a phenomenon …

A neurophysiological signature of dynamic emotion recognition associated with social communication skills and cortical gamma-aminobutyric acid levels in children

D Sousa, A Ferreira, D Rodrigues, HC Pereira… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Emotion recognition is a core feature of social perception. In particular,
perception of dynamic facial emotional expressions is a major feature of the third visual …