Task-based fMRI ‘Cyberball’ paradigm
MODE will study the neurobiological mechanisms that subserve this evolving sense of interpersonal trust within patients over the first year of psychoanalytic therapy. We have adapted a task that participants perform while in the MRI scanner so as to identify the brain systems that support the cognitive, emotional, and behavioral requirements of the task. This fMRI task, called “Cyberball” [