Although the effectiveness of pharmacotherapy and behavioral therapy is evident in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), about half of patients are refractory to those treatments. Since OCD has been regarded as a brain disorder, a neurofeedback technique that uses real-time feedback of brain activity to teach self-regulation of brain function might be a promising therapy. We review previous EEG and fMRI neurofeedback trials in this article. In addition, we introduce a novel technique called decoded neurofeedback (DecNef) and discuss its possible clinical application to the treatment of OCD.
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Neural Substrate of OCD and Possible Clinical Application of Neurofeedback to its Treatment
1 Department of Neural Computation for Decision-making, ATR Brain Information Communication Research Laboratory Group
2 Department of Psychiatry, Graduate School of Medical Science, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine)
3 Graduate School of Information Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology
4 Research Fellow of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
2 Department of Psychiatry, Graduate School of Medical Science, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine)
3 Graduate School of Information Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology
4 Research Fellow of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Psychiatria et Neurologia Japonica
119: 323-331, 2017
＜Keywords：obsessive-compulsive disorder, neurofeedback, , biofeedback, decoding, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)＞
