Altered Resting-State Amygdala Functional Connectivity after Real-Time fMRI Emotion Self-Regulation Training

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Design of rtfMRI-nf experiment. (a) Experimental procedure consisted of four stages, including two rest runs, one mental imagination run, and three rtfMRI-nf training runs. (b) Three different display screens for rtfMRI-nf procedure during different states of subjects. Display screen 1 (DS1) was presented to the subjects at the beginning of each block. Subjects were instructed to evoke happy autobiographical memories to make themselves feel happy while trying to increase the level of the left bar to a given target level (indicated by the fixed height blue bar). The left red bar in display screen 2 (DS2) indicates the cumulative emotions above the baseline. The left green bar in display screen 3 (DS3) indicates the cumulative emotions below the baseline.

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