{"id":219219,"date":"2025-08-01T08:06:55","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T13:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/brain-imaging-may-identify-patients-likely-to-benefit-from-anxiety-care-app"},"modified":"2025-08-01T08:06:55","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T13:06:55","slug":"brain-imaging-may-identify-patients-likely-to-benefit-from-anxiety-care-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/brain-imaging-may-identify-patients-likely-to-benefit-from-anxiety-care-app","title":{"rendered":"Brain imaging may identify patients likely to benefit from anxiety care app"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/brain-imaging-may-identify-patients-likely-to-benefit-from-anxiety-care-app2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The preliminary study suggested that young people with weaker connections between two <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/brain+areas\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">brain areas<\/a> involved in both attending to and regulating responses to <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/anxiety\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">anxiety<\/a> were more likely to benefit from a self-guided anxiety care app than those with stronger connections.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jamanetworkopen\/fullarticle\/2837059?\" target=\"_blank\">study<\/a>, published in <i><i>JAMA Network Open<\/i>,<\/i> looked at data from a subset of clinical trial participants who agreed to undergo a brain MRI before using the anxiety care app developed by the investigators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The preliminary study suggested that young people with weaker connections between two brain areas involved in both attending to and regulating responses to anxiety were more likely to benefit from a self-guided anxiety care app than those with stronger connections. The study, published in JAMA Network Open, looked at data from a subset of clinical [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}