心身医学における安静時機能的MRI研究

<p>The default mode network (DMN) is a very noteworthy issue of the self-referential mental activity, and could be associated with maladaptive rumination on mental diseases such as depression.</p><p>In psychosomatic medicine, to investigate DMN is important because manifestations of various physical diseases are associated with maladaptive self-referential mental processing which might be related to neglect of their health and disorders of emotional processing such as alexithymia.</p><p>We showed our study about alterations of DMN in patients of anorexia nervosa, and discussed whether or not analysis of this network is useful for understanding the pathology of illness in psychosomatic medicine.</p>