Articles by Teodora Stoica in JoVE

Real-time fMRI Biofeedback Targeting the Orbitofrontal Cortex for Contamination Anxiety

JoVE 3535 1/20/2012

Michelle Hampson¹, Teodora Stoica¹, John Saksa², Dustin Scheinost¹, Maolin Qiu¹, Jitendra Bhawnani¹, Christopher Pittenger^2,3,4, Xenophon Papademetris¹, Todd Constable¹

¹Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Yale University School of Medicine, ²Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, ³Yale Child Study Center, Yale University School of Medicine, ⁴Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program, Yale University School of Medicine

Here we present a method for training people to control a brain area involved in contamination anxiety and for probing the relationship between contamination anxiety and brain connectivity patterns.