Brain activity during biofeedback relaxation: a functional neuroimaging investigation

Abstract

The mechanisms by which cognitive processes influence globus pallidus activity, whereas no significant increases in activity were associated with biofeedback compared states of bodily arousal are important for understanding the pathogenesis and maintenance of stress-related with random feedback.The interaction between biofeedback and relaxation, highlighting activity unique morbidity.We used PET to investigate cerebral activity relating to the cognitively driven modulation of to biofeedback relaxation, was associated with enhanced anterior cingulate and cerebellar vermal activity.These sympathetic activity.Subjects were trained to perform a biofeedback relaxation exercise that reflected data implicate the anterior cingulate cortex in the intentional modulation of bodily arousal and suggest a electrodermal activity and were subsequently scanned performing repetitions of four tasks: biofeedback functional neuroanatomy of how cognitive states are integrated with bodily responses.The findings have relaxation, relaxation without biofeedback and two corresponding control conditions in which the subjects potential implications for a mechanistic account of how therapeutic interventions, such as relaxation training in were instructed not to relax.Relaxation was associated with significant increases in left anterior cingulate and stress-related disorders, mediate their effects.