Integrative psychotherapy and psychotherapy integration: The case of EMDR (European Journal of Trauma & Dissociation)
Explore whether EMDR therapy is a technique/procedure within a psychotherapy practice or a comprehensive/distinct psychotherapy approach.
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Eye movements of recent and remote autobiographical memories: fewer and longer lasting fixations during the retrieval of childhood memories (Psychological Research)
The aim of the current study was to evaluate eye movements during the retrieval of remote and recent autobiographical memories.
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Empirically supported psychological treatments: EMDR therapy (Oxford, 2020)
This chapter provides an overview of the current empirical support for EMDR therapy for PTSD.
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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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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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.
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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.
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Neurobiology of emotional trauma (Psychiatriki)
Neuroimaging studies of successful EMDR treatment have consistently shown that patients exhibited increased frontal lobe activation.
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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.
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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.
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