Special Topics

 

Special Topic Session 1

1. From causality to enhancement – different methods for different goals?
   • Introduction and overview of the special topic (Michal Ramot)
   • Using real-time reading of neural states to optimize stimuli (Megan Debettencourt)
   • A reward based closed-loop system designed to modify mood (Hanna Keren)
   • Covert neurofeedback and the study of causality (Michal Ramot)

 
Special Topic Session 2

1. New methodological developments in the field of real-time fMRI Applications
   • Recurrent quality assessment for real-time fMRI using OpenNFT (Yury Koush)
   • Hyperscanning in real-time fMRI Neurofeedback applications (Mikhail Zvyagintsev)
   • Advanced virtual environment based real-time fMRI neurofeedback using multiband multiecho acquisition (Halim Baqapuri)
2. How to hit a moving target: What the developing brain can tell us about target selection in real-time fMRI-based neurofeedback
   • fMRI-NF of right inferior frontal cortex in ADHD adolescents (Katya Rubia)
   • Functional connectivity-based NF of emotion regulation networks in adolescence (Kathrin Cohen Kadosh)
   • fMRI NF of mid-temporal limbic structures in depressed adolescents (Karina Quevedo)
   • Individualized RT fMRI-NF in adolescents with aggressive behaviour (Sarah Baumeister)

 
Special Topic Session 3

1. Process-based Framework for Neurofeedback Interventions – Towards Precise Neuromodulation in Psychiatry
   • The process-based framework – Theoretical background: opposing psychiatric accounts of mental disorders; rationale and goals of the process-based framework (Talma Hendler)
   • Process-based mechanistic neural targeting – The feasibility and efficacy of modulating complex network/distributed patterns indices in fMRI neurofeedback (Aurelio Cortese)
   • Process-specific feedback interfaces – The pros and cons of using virtual and augmented reality technologies in NF for the incorporation of process-specific multimodal stimuli (Miguel Castello-Branco)
   • Dissociating general and target processes in NF – A critical discussion on NF methodology from a process-based perspective, and the presentation of processbased inspired experimental designs and a new control condition for determining specificity of NF clinical effects (Nitzan Lubianiker)
2. Neuromodulation of altered brain activation patterns in schizophrenia
   • Neural targets for rt fMRI NF in schizophrenia – learning and clinical perspectives? (Renaud Jardri & Thomas Fovet)
   • A double-blind rtfMRI neurofeedback study on auditory verbal hallucinations (Klaus Mathiak & Jana Zweerings)
   • Neurocognitive basis of hallucination: Is there any therapeutic potential of rtfMRI NF? (Paul Allen & Sukhi Shergill)

 
Special Topic Session 4

1. Promises and Challenges of Amygdala-Neurofeedback
   • Introduction (Talma Hendler)
   • Effectiveness of amygdala fMRI neurofeedback: an evaluation of the current evidence (Pavla Linhartová)
   • Unidirectional rtfMRI amygdala neurofeedback training results in bidirectional control (Laurie Compère & Kymberly Young)
   • Critical aspects to optimize amygdala neurofeedback protocols (Lydia Hellrung)
   • Operant control and discrimination of deep brain activation with the amygdala-EFP (Christian Paret)
2. Clinical trials and methodological considerations of neurofeedback: ADHD, PTSD and optimal performance in cognitive control
   • Plastic Modulation of EEG and fMRI Resting-State Dynamics following Neurofeedback: A Randomized Clinical Trial in PTSD (Tomas Ros & Andrew Nicholson)
   • From peak-performance to treatment: FM-theta neurofeedback in healthy and subclinical groups (Enriquez Geppert)
   • Clinical trials and methodological considerations of neurofeedback: ADHD, PTSD and optimal performance in cognitive control (Martijn Arns)