Neural correlates of treatment effect and prediction of treatment outcome in patients with PTSD and comorbid personality disorder: Study design (Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation)

Description of protocol for a neuroimaging study of treatment of patients with PTSD and comorbid borderline (BPD) or cluster C (CPD) personality disorder traits.

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The effect of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing technique on COVID-19 induced anxiety, depression, sleep quality among emergency nurses (Annals of the Romanian Society for Cell Biology)

Study showed the importance of the EMDR technique for medical staff for decreasing COVID-19 induced anxiety & depression and improved sleep.

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COVID-19, isolation, quarantine: On the efficacy of internet-based eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) and cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) for ongoing trauma (Brain Sciences)

This study compared the efficacy of EMDR and CBT administered online to manage the ongoing trauma associated with quarantine or COVID-19.

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A meta-analysis of the effectiveness of EMDR and TF-CBT in reducing trauma symptoms and externalizing behavior problems in adolescents (International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology)

Meta-analysis on EMDR and Trauma Focused-Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for reducing trauma symptoms & externalizing behavior in adolescents.

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Sleep parameters improvement in PTSD soldiers after symptoms remission (Scientific Reports)

Our objective was therefore to study sleep parameters before and after symptom remission in soldiers with PTSD.

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Somatoform Dissociative Symptoms Have No Impact on the Outcome of Trauma-Focused Treatment for Severe PTSD (Journal of Clinical Medicine)

Study confirms that somatoform dissociative symptoms in patients with PTSD does not necessarily call for different treatment approach.

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Trauma after the gift of life: Identification and treatment of post-traumatic stress disorders in heart transplant recipients (The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation)

Two cases that highlight successful use of EMDR therapy post-orthotopic heart transplantation with improvement of PTSD symptoms.

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The treatment of trauma-induced sexual pain among women: Clinical considerations for the use of adjunctive EMDR (The Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality)

Some women experience sexual pain in the aftermath of a sexually traumatic event, thus EMDR may be a suitable adjunctive treatment.

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Comparison of group eye movement desensitization and reprocessing with cognitive and behavioral therapy protocol after the 2020 earthquake in Turkey: A field study in children and adolescents (European Journal of Therapeutics)

EMDR-IGTP vs. Cognitive and Behavioral Therapy Based CIPCA in children who survived the 2020 earthquake in Turkey.

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Review of the application for EMDR therapy in the treatment of pathological gambling – case report (Psychiatria Danubina)

Pathological gamblers may be candidates for EMDR because of the potential existence trauma that may trigger pathological gambling behavior.

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اثربخشی درمان حساسیتزدایی با حرکت چشم و پردازش مجدد بر اضطراب سخنرانی و خودکارآمدی تحصیلی دانشجویان دارای اضطراب اجتماعی

هدف این پژوهش تعیین میزان اثربخشی درمان حساسیتزدایی با حرکت چشم و پردازش مجدد بر
خودکارآمدی تحصیلی و اضطراب سخنرانی دانشجویان دارای اضطراب اجتماعی است

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How memory switches brain responses of patients with posttraumatic stress disorder (Cerebral Cortex Communications)

This study used fMRI and a novel correlation-based approach to show that PTSD patients exhibit opposing brain responses to traumatic versus daily memories, with these discrepancies lessening after successful EMDR therapy.

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