Mechanisms of Action Archives

Trauma, treatment and Tetris: video gaming increases hippocampal volume in male patients with combat-related posttraumatic stress disorder (Journal of Psychiatry & Neuroscience)

A neuroimaging study to assess Tetris in patients with existing PTSD or explored how playing Tetris may affect brain structure.

Involvement of the cerebellum in EMDR efficiency: a metabolic connectivity PET study in PTSD (European Journal of Psychotraumatology)

The posterior cerebellum and its metabolic connectivity with the precuneus are involved in the clinical efficiency of EMDR in PTSD.

The effects of individual psychotherapy in BDNF levels of patients with mental disorders: A systematic review (Frontiers in Psychiatry)

“A systematic review evaluating the effects of individual psychotherapy in BDNF levels in patients with mental disorders.”

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.

The effects of eye movements and alternative dual tasks on the vividness and emotionality of negative autobiographical memories: A meta-analysis of laboratory studies (Journal of Experimental Psychopathology)

A meta-analysis of lab studies that compared the effects of eye movements and/or alternative dual tasks (e.g., counting) on the vividness and emotionality of negative autobiographical memories.

Eye movements support behavioral pattern completion (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America)

Our findings provide evidence linking gaze reinstatement and pattern completion and advance a functional role for EMs in memory retrieval.

Neurobiology of emotional trauma (Psychiatriki)

Neuroimaging studies of successful EMDR treatment have consistently shown that patients exhibited increased frontal lobe activation.

Analyse et comparaison de discours de patients douloureux chroniques durant une thérapie de soutien par opposition à l’utilisation de la thérapie Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) (Pratiques Psychologiques)

L’objectif principal de ce travail s’est alors attaché à comparer le discours des patients durant l’utilisation de la thérapie EMDR en comparaison avec une thérapie de soutien, dans une Unité hospitalière de prise en charge de la douleur chronique.

The predictive processing model of EMDR (Frontiers in Psychology)

This article describes the Predictive Processing model of EMDR, a proposed neurobiological mechanism/model that expands on the AIP model.

Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing for post-traumatic stress disorder from the perspective of three-dimensional model of the experiential selfhood (Medical Hypotheses)

A theoretical article on the neurobiological rationale of EMDR using the three-dimensional model of experiential selfhood and overview of EMDR therapy neuroimaging studies.

Prise en charge du traumatisme psychique par la thérapie EMDR et mécanismes cérébraux impliqués (Revue de Neuropsychologie)

L’objectif de nos travaux était d’explorer le mécanisme d’action de la thérapie EMDR à travers différents paradigmes en EEG, TEP-scanner et IRMf, en comparant l’activité cérébrale avant et après traitement ou pendant les stimulations bilatérales alternées.

Changing emotional visual and auditory memories: are modality-matched dual-tasks more effective (Cognition and Emotion)

Participants recalled memories of the sounds and pictures while executing a visually-demanding task, an auditory-demanding task, or no task.

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