English Archives

EMDR effects on pursuit eye movements (PLoS ONE)

This study aimed to objectivize the quality of smooth pursuit eye movements in a standard laboratory task before and after EMDR.

Study to determine the prevalence of PTSD and the effectiveness of EMDR treatment in traumatized Iraqi children.

This study examined whether eye movements reduce vividness and emotionality of visual distressing images about feared future events: “flashforwards”.

Letter to the editor commenting on Shapiro’s fidelity checks by Jamie Marich, with response from Francine Shapiro.

Reviews of recently published EMDR-related titles by Burana, Hensley, Leeds, Luber, Parnell, Paulsen, Rubin, Springer, & Shapiro.

EMDR had a positive effect both on emotional cognitive processing and on long-term memory conceptual organization.

Protocols for using EMDR as treatment for substance abuse, case study on successful treatment of woman with comorbid alcohol abuse & PTSD.

Case vignettes illustrate the integrative use of clinical hypnosis and EMDR in the treatment of adults who experienced childhood abuse.

EMDR may benefit from theories developed for dissociative disorders, such as the theory of structural dissociation of the personality (TSDP).

We have recorded a continual polygraph EEG, before, during and after EMDR therapy, in patient with combat-related PTSD.

The relative efficacy (to simpler procedures) of EMDR for reduction of the vividness of memories was investigated in a non-clinical sample.

Does a secondary task that taxes working memory have beneficial effects? Dos stronger taxing mean stronger reductions in vividness/adversity?