Effective psychotherapies for posttraumatic stress disorder: A review and critique (CNS Spectrums)
This report reviews and critiques the psychotherapy literature for the treatment of PTSD and systematically presents data.
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Editorial: Considering Mechanisms of Action in EMDR (Journal of EMDR Practice and Research)
As a profession we are still struggling to determine what makes therapy work and what creates change. What are the mechanisms of action?
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Psychophysiological Changes During EMDR and Treatment Outcome (Journal of EMDR Practice and Research)
Study investigating whether psychophysiological changes during EMDR is related to subjective and objective reduction of PTSD symptoms.
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A Working Memory Explanation for the Effects of Eye Movements in EMDR (Journal of EMDR Practice and Research)
Study tested working memory theory to investigate the effects of eye movement (EM) on the components of autobiographical memory.
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Crucial Processes in EMDR: More Than Imaginal Exposure (Journal of EMDR Practice and Research)
The processes that underlie the effectiveness of EMDR are examined by evaluating the procedural differences between it and exposure therapy.
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Interhemispheric Interaction and Saccadic Horizontal Eye Movements: Implications for Episodic Memory, EMDR, and PTSD (Journal of EMDR Practice and Research)
The body of literature on the effects of bilateral saccadic eye movements, patterned after those employed in EMDR, on memory is reviewed.
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Psychophysiological Studies of EMDR (Journal of EMDR Practice and Research)
This article describes research on the effects of eye movements during authentic EMDR sessions of chronic PTSD in refugees of war and torture.
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Sleep-Dependent Memory Processing and EMDR Action (Journal of EMDR Practice and Research)
The possibility that bilateral stimulation induces a brain/mind state similar to that of rapid eye movement sleep is supported by studies.
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The Neurobiology of EMDR: Exploring the Thalamus and Neural Integration (Journal of EMDR Practice and Research)
One underlying mechanism of EMDR stimulation (BLS) is likely thalamic activation specifically of the ventrolateral and central-lateral nuclei.
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EMDR and the Adaptive Information Processing Model: Potential Mechanisms of Change (Journal of EMDR Practice and Research)
Throughout the article a variety of mechanisms of action are discussed, including those inferred by tenets of the AIP model, and the EMDR procedures themselves, including the bilateral stimulation.
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Cessation of deliberate self harm following eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing: A case report (BMC Cases Journal)
A case report of using EMDR with an eighteen year old female patient presenting with acts of self cutting.
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QEEG analysis of treating PTSD and bulimia nervosa using EMDR (Journal of Neurotherapy)
Bilateral stimulation treatment methods such as EMDR were shown to be successful in treating the PTSD and Bulimia Nervosa conditions.
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