Cited by 110Psychotherapy Techniques and ApplicationsAnxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive ProcessesFunctional Brain Connectivity Studies

Functional neuroimaging studies of the effects of psychotherapy.

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Beauregard, Mario·2014·Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience

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It has been long established that psychological interventions can markedly alter patients' thinking patterns, beliefs, attitudes, emotional states, and behaviors. Little was known about the neural mechanisms mediating such alterations before the advent of functional neuroimaging techniques. Since the turn of the new millenium, several functional neuroimaging studies have been conducted to tackle this important issue. Some of these studies have explored the neural impact of various forms of psychotherapy in individuals with major depressive disorder. Other neuroimaging studies have investigated the effects of psychological interventions for anxiety disorders. I review these studies in the present article, and discuss the putative neural mechanisms of change in psychotherapy. The findings of these studies suggest that mental and behavioral changes occurring during psychotherapeutic interventions can lead to a normalization of functional brain activity at a global level.

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  • Psychotherapy research to date has only considered the patient's brain as the locus of therapeutic effects.

    “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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    The Introduction and Conclusion and future directions (pages unavailable) describe neuroimaging research on changes in patients’ brains following psychotherapy. The paper does not establish that psychotherapy research as a whole had only considered the patient’s brain as the locus of therapeutic effects. (LLM, conf=0.86)

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Authors
Beauregard, M.
Affiliations
University of Arizona (US)
Corresponding author
Beauregard, Mario
Venue
Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience
Published
2014-03-31
Volume
16
Issue
1
Pages
75-81
ISSN
  • 1294-8322 (ISSN-L)
  • 1958-5969
OpenAlex
W1496288922
Cited by
110
References
37
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FWCI
4.73
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
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 › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
Keywords
psychotherapy, major depressive disorder, anxiety disorders, functional brain activity, psychological intervention, functional neuroimaging
MeSH terms
Brain, Humans, Psychotherapy, Functional Neuroimaging

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