Real-time functional connectivity-based neurofeedback of amygdala-frontal pathways reduces anxiety Zhiying Zhao 1 , Shuxia Yao 1 , Keshuang Li 1 , Cornelia Sindermann 2 , Feng Zhou 1 , Weihua Zhao 1 , Jianfu Li 1 , Michael Lührs 3 , Rainer Goebel 3 , Keith M. Kendrick 1 , Benjamin Becker 1 * 1 Clinical Hospital of Chengdu Brain Science Institute, MOE Key Laboratory for Neuroinformation, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China 2 Institute of Psychology and Education, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany 3 Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands. Correspondence Benjamin Becker Center for Information in Medicine University of Electronic Science and Technology of China Chengdu 611731, China Mail: ben_becker@gmx.de . CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license not certified by peer review) is the author/funder. It is made available under a The copyright holder for this preprint (which was this version posted April 28, 2018. . https://doi.org/10.1101/308924 doi: bioRxiv preprint