N/A N=37 Randomized Single-blind Basic Science

Anterior Insula Regulation and Pain Empathy

Anterior Insula Activity During Regulation · Empathic Responses After Anterior Insula Regulation

Bottom Line

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Enrolled (actual)

Serious AEs

0.0%

Results posted

Jan 2018

Primary outcome: Primary: Neural Activity of Anterior Insula During Neorofeedback Training — 0.077; 0.026 percentage of BOLD signal change

Study Design & Population

Study type: Interventional
Phase: N/A
Interventions: real-time fMRI neurofeedback training running on Turbo Brain voyager (TBV) 3.2 (Brain Innovation, Maastricht, The Netherlands) (Device)
Age: Adult · 18+ yrs
Sex: All
Sponsor: University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
Primary completion: Jul 2015

Outcome Measures

Outcome	Result	p-value
PRIMARY Neural Activity of Anterior Insula During Neorofeedback Training	0.077; 0.026	—
PRIMARY Pain Empathy Rating Scores	0.249; -0.09	—

Summary

The aim is to test whether rtfMRI-based neurofeedback training on anterior insula impacts pain empathy.

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

Healthy subjects without past or current psychiatric or neurological disorders

Exclusion Criteria

history of head injury;
claustrophobia;
pregnancy;
medical or psychiatric illness.

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