(SCIMEX-Australia) In an Israeli study published this week in Nature Human Behaviour, researchers trialed "neurofeedback training" in 180 recruits undergoing stressful military combat training. The researchers say this training gives soldiers tools to deal with stressful situations and may prevent them from developing psychiatric disorders like post-traumatic stress disorder. The recruits were trained to change their own brain activity through neurofeedback. Since most neurofeedback routines rely on expensive imaging equipment like fMRI, the researchers used a less costly EEG-based neurofeedback routine designed to target brain activity in the amygdala, a region known to be involved in emotional processing.
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