Real-time fMRI neurofeedback compared to cognitive behavioral therapy in a pilot study for the treatment of mild and moderate depression.

"the mri dataset is available at https://openneuro org/datasets/ds003770/versions/1 1 0 .; data availability the fmri dataset generated during the current study along with demographical clinical and psychological measures is available in the openneuro org repository https://openneuro org/datasets/ds003770/versions/1 1 0 while demographical clinical and psychological measures of both nfb and cbt patients are freely available in the osf io repository https://osf io/qszd9/ . data availability the fmri dataset generated during the current study along with demographical clinical and psychological measures is available in the openneuro"

"Declarations Conflict of interestThe authors declare that they have no competing interests. Ethical approvalThe study protocol was approved by the ethical commission of the Research Institute of Molecular Biology and Biophysics, the division of Federal Research Center of Fundamental and Translational Medicine, reference №1, June 8, 2016. The research was conducted following the Declaration of Helsinki ethical guidelines. Consent to participateAll patients gave their written informed consent prior to participation. Consent for publicationNot applicable. Conflict of interest The authors declare that they have no competing interests."

"Funding Open Access funding enabled and organized by Projekt DEAL. The study was funded by the Russian Science Foundation grant № 16–15-00183. Russian Science Foundation did not influence the study design, collection, analysis, and interpretation of data, manuscript writing, and decision to submit the manuscript. MZ and KM were supported by the supported by the German Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF; APIC: 01EE1405A, B, and C; TRAM: 01DN18026); German Research Foundation (DFG; IRTG 2150, MA 2631/6-1)."