Frontier mental health research: psychedelics & drug studies

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A systematic review and meta-analysis of resting-state fMRI in anxiety disorders: Need for data sharing to move the field forward

André Zugman, Laura Jett, Chase Antonacci, Anderson M. Winkler, Daniel S. Pine
Journal of Anxiety Disorders Summary & key facts 2023 44 citations

This paper is a systematic review and meta-analysis of resting-state fMRI studies that compared people with diagnosed anxiety disorders to healthy controls. The authors searched 1,226 records and then ran a coordinate-based meta-analysis (ALE) only on seed-based rs-fMRI studies because other study types were too few. The meta-analysis found reduced…

Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications Functional Brain Connectivity Studies Mental Health Research Topics
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