Mechanisms of Action Archives

Increase of precuneus metabolism correlates with reduction of PTSD symptoms after EMDR therapy in military veterans: an 18F-FDG PET study during virtual reality exposure to war (European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging)

Study to identify, after EMDR therapy, regions of brain metabolism that evolve during stress exposure of a war scene in veterans with PTSD.

Testing efficacy of Visual Schema Displacement Therapy, an abbreviated EMDR protocol, and control condition for negative emotional memories.

The default mode network functions in autobiographical memory, self-oriented and social cognition, and imagining the future.

Sixteen PTSD patients underwent fMRI during negative emotional face recognition task, before and after EMDR treatment.

A neurobiological account for how oculomotion may influence the frontoparietal cortical representation of traumatic memories” implications for EMDR.

This paper is a current review of the scientific validation steps of EMDR psychotherapy and its mechanisms of action.

Study testing if eye-movement tasks that load working memory while thinking of a memory reduces the emotionality/vividness of this memory.

We tested the effectiveness of an experimental intervention that consists of elements from virtual reality (VR) exposure therapy and EMDR.

While EMDR treatment fidelity measures have been cited in past research, none have been subject to any empirical investigation of reliability.

Neuroimaging data suggest a similar clinical improvement following EMDR and TF-CBT, with changes of bilateral temporal pole connectivity.

Results reveal the neural circuit that underlies an effective strategy for sustainably attenuating traumatic memories.

Participants underwent a behavioural fear conditioning and extinction paradigm during functional magnetic resonance (fMRI).