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Training the brain to treat itself is a promising therapy for traumatic stress. The training uses an auditory or visual signal that corresponds to the activity of a particular brain region, called neurofeedback, which can guide people to regulate their own brain activity.
However, treating stress-related disorders requires accessing the brain's emotional hub, the amygdala, which is located deep in the brain and difficult to reach with typical neurofeedback methods. This type of activity has typically only been measured using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), which is costly and poorly accessible, limiting its clinical use.
A study published in the current issue of Biological Psychiatry tested a new imaging method that provided reliable neurofeedback on the level of amygdala activity using electroencephalography (EEG), and allowed people to alter their own emotional responses through self-regulation of its activity.
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The researchers built upon a new imaging tool they had developed in a previous study that uses EEG to measure changes in amygdala activity, indicated by its "electrical fingerprint." With the new tool, 42 participants were trained to reduce an auditory feedback corresponding to their amygdala activity using any mental strategies they found effective.During this neurofeedback task, the participants learned to modulate their own amygdala electrical activity. This also led to improved downregulation of blood-oxygen level dependent signals of the amygdala, an indicator of regional activation measured with fMRI.
(Score: 1) by Francis on Thursday September 15 2016, @06:22AM
There's a correlation there. I used to live in China and behaviors that would result in a diagnosis of ADHD in the US is more or less the norm over there. The most probable reason is that they don't spend the years that Americans do making their own decisions and mistakes. Basically until they're adults the parents and teachers make damn near all the decisions. Even as adults the bosses make all the decisions at work. The kids will have a small amount of time in which to do things they enjoy doing, most of the rest of the time is school and studying up for their exams.
I'd literally see the locals make foolish choices and then be completely incapable of drawing the connection between being really, really shitty to the foreigners and then not be able to retain decent foreign workers. It's not exactly rocket science that if you behave like an abusive prick that anybody that has other options will leave. Hell, the whole work environment over there is based upon the notion of people just not showing up to work one day when they move on to another job, but somehow foreigners were expected to put up with that garbage.