AUG 25, 2026 · JOURNAL ARTICLE
Prefrontal-limbic circuit modulation in anxiety disorders: Differential neural effects of psychotherapy versus pharmacotherapy revealed by ALE meta-analysis.
Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience
Meta-analysis of 27 fMRI studies with 561 patients showing differential neural mechanisms between psychotherapy and pharmacotherapy in anxiety disorders, but findings are explicitly described as exploratory due to limited and heterogeneous evidence base.
Reported
Total sample size561
Number of studies27
Pooled symptom reduction effect s…1.44