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Neuroimaging for psychotherapy research: current trends.
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OBJECTIVE: This article reviews neuroimaging studies that inform psychotherapy research. An introduction to neuroimaging methods is provided as background for the increasingly sophisticated breadth of methods and findings appearing in psychotherapy research. METHOD: We compiled and assessed a comprehensive list of neuroimaging studies of psychotherapy outcome, along with selected examples of other types of studies that also are relevant to psychotherapy research. We emphasized magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) since it is the dominant neuroimaging modality in psychological research. RESULTS: We summarize findings from neuroimaging studies of psychotherapy outcome, including treatment for depression, obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), and schizophrenia. CONCLUSIONS: The increasing use of neuroimaging methods in the study of psychotherapy continues to refine our understanding of both outcome and process. We suggest possible directions for future neuroimaging studies in psychotherapy research.
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“This is a fundamentally new perspective because psychotherapy research to date has only considered the patient’s brain as the locus of therapeutic effects (Etkin et al., 2005; Beauregard, 2014; Weingarten and Strauman, 2015).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Weingarten, C. P., & Strauman, T. J.
- Affiliations
- Duke University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Weingarten, Carol P.
- ORCID
- Strauman, Timothy J.
- Venue
- Psychotherapy Research
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2014-02-17
- Volume
- 25
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 185-213
- ISSN
- 1050-3307 (ISSN-L)
- 1468-4381
- PMC
- PMC4135014
- OpenAlex
- W2164344705
- Cited by
- 81
- References
- 215
- Citations by year
- 2025: 4 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 7 · 2021: 26 · 2020: 4 · 2019: 7 · 2018: 5 · 2017: 9 · 2016: 7 · 2015: 6 · 2014: 2
- FWCI
- 9.47
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Psychotherapy Research (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- DukeSpace (Duke University) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- Funders
- National Institutes of Health (R01DA031579, R01-NS074045)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Keywords
- neuroimaging, psychotherapy outcome, treatment response, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, schizophrenia, magnetic resonance imaging, treatment process
- MeSH terms
- Depression, Humans, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Psychotherapy, Schizophrenia, Treatment Outcome, Neuroimaging
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