MOSAIC: A new pain-free psychotherapy for psychological trauma (The American Journal of Psychotherapy)
Through BAS and bodily sensations, MOSAIC therapy aims to enrich the traumatic memory neuronal network with new information.
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EMDR with Children in the Play Therapy Room An Integrated Approach (Springer, 2020)
Integrative contributions from dually credentialled EMDR clinicians and registered play therapists, art therapists & sand tray practitioners.
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Fast Feet Forward: Sports training and running practice to reduce stress and increase positive cognitions in unaccompanied asylum-seeking minors (Counselling & Psychology Research,)
This paper looks using running as bilateral stimulation (BLS) and findings of an unaccompanied asylum-seeking minors sport trauma group.
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Cracking the EMDR code: Recruitment of sensory, memory and emotional networks during bilateral alternating auditory stimulation (Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry)
We show that EMDR therapy’s bilateral alternating stimulation is not a simple sensory signal: it activates large emotional neural networks.
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Comprehensive demo on offering BLS (eye movements and tactile) through HIPAA-compliant telehealth platforms
This video by Jennifer Marchand and Rebecca Hogg demonstrates options for providing online visual & auditory bilateral stimulation.
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Using the EMDR Processing Continuum (EMD, EMDr, EMDR)
At times clients are unwilling or unable to process all the neural networks associated with the targeted incident during EMDR processing.
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Eye-movement intervention enhances extinction via amygdala deactivation (Journal of Neuroscience)
This article “demonstrates that goal-directed eye-movements, like working-memory tasks, deactivate the amygdala, the core neural substrate of fear learning.”
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The effect of bilateral eye movements versus no eye movements on sexual fantasies (Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry)
This study aimed to examine whether eye movements (like with EMDR) impair sexual fantasies (a form of mental imagery).
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Bilateral alternating auditory stimulations facilitate fear extinction and retrieval (Frontiers in Psychology)
An animal model of fear recovery showed that BLS facilitate fear extinction and fear extinction retrieval, can this work in humans too?
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Rôle des mouvements oculaires dans l’EMDR : faire des mouvements oculaires en se concentrant sur des souvenirs autobiographiques négatifs réduit le nombre d’intrusions (Journal of EMDR Practice and Research)
En déconstruisant la thérapie de désensibilisation et de retraitement par les mouvements oculaires (EMDR), les chercheurs ont découvert que…
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Degrading traumatic memories with eye movements: A pilot functional MRI study in PTSD (European Journal of Psychotraumatology)
Script driven imagery before & after recall of traumatic memories is feasible to investigate working mechanisms with eye movements in PTSD.
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The role of alternating bilateral stimulation in establishing positive cognition in EMDR therapy: A multi-channel near-infrared spectroscopy study (PLOS One)
This article looks at the effects of bilateral stimulation in EMDR therapy’s resource development and installation (RDI) by way of multi-channel near-infrared spectroscopy imaging.
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