RCT Archives

A controlled study of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing in the treatment of post-traumatic stress disordered sexual assault victims (Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic)

Efficacy of EMDR compared to a no-treatment wait-list control in the treatment of PTSD in adult female sexual assault victims.

Results suggest that eye movements do not play a significant role in processing of traumatic information in EMDR.

Study of 22 subjects with Pathological Gambling (PG) tests theory that root of PG lies in unresolved trauma-related anxiety, similar to PTSD.

The relaxing effect of the eye movements suggests that a mechanisms operating during EMDR is desensitization by reciprocal inhibition.

Twenty-eight subjects from a university with stress/trauma were selected to receive either EMDR or a visual (non-movement) placebo.

Four Vietnam veterans diagnosed with PTSD were treated with 12 sessions of EMDR, targeting their combat memories.

Eye movement and expectancy variables were tested through one-hour sessions with 41 undergraduate subjects with test anxiety.

Participants receiving EMDR showed decreases in presenting complaints and in anxiety and increases in positive cognition.

Imaginal exposure (image habituation training—IHT) vs. applied muscle relaxation (AMR) vs. eye movement desensitization (EMD) for PTSD.

Case reports make claims for efficacy of “eye movement desensitization” (EMD) in treatment of traumatic memories. Is there evidence?

This study explores the efficacy of EMDR in the management of acute pain induced by hand exposures to ice water.

EMD/R was investigated with Vietnam combat veterans with PTSD, assigned to EMD/R or a control condition, and may not have been effective.