Neurobiology Archives

Criticality is associated with future psychotherapy response in patients with post-traumatic stress disorder – A pilot study (Chronic Stress)

This study assessed whether brain criticality (a factor in optimizing information processing) is related to future response to treatment including EMDR therapy, hypothesizing that treatment responders’ brains function closer to criticality.

The effect of eye movement desensitization on neurocognitive functioning compared to retrieval-only in PTSD patients: A randomized controlled trial (BMC Psychiatry)

This study examined whether Eye Movement Desensitization (EMD) improves neurocognitive functioning in PTSD patients, in comparison with a retrieval-only control condition without EMs.

Neurobiology, psychotherapeutic interventions, and emerging therapies in addition: A systematic review (Journal of Addictive Diseases)

This systematic review explores the neurobiological underpinnings of addiction and examines the efficacy of psychotherapies, such as CBT, EMDR, MBRP, and emerging therapies in treating SUDs.

Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing treatment: New psychotherapeutic perspectives in the context of metabolic diseases (Journal of Innate Metabolism)

This article aims to outline the potential of EMDR application to treat PTSD in the context of metabolic disorders.

Targeted memory reactivation to augment treatment in post-traumatic stress disorder (Current Biology)

This study applied targeted memory reactivation (TMR) to patients during sleep after receiving EMDR therapy session.

Polyvagal-Informed EMDR Therapy

Podcast episode with EMDR Certified Therapist, Consultant and Trainer Rebecca Kase discussing polyvagal-informed EMDR therapy.

Distinct saliva DNA methylation profiles in relation to treatment outcome in youth with posttraumatic stress disorder (Translational Psychiatry)

This study investigated the link between epigenetic mechanisms like the DNA methylation genes and previously associated biological mechanisms with treatment outcome.

Apples and oranges: PTSD patients and healthy individuals are not comparable in their subjective and physiological responding to emotion induction and bilateral stimulation (Frontiers in Psychology)

This study compared the response of patients with and without PTSD to bilateral stimulation in areas of emotion, cognition, and physiological response.

Psychological therapy for functional neurological disorder: Examining impact on dissociation, psychological distress and general functioning (Journal of Trauma and Dissociation)

This study explored the dissociative profile of patients with functional neurological disorder (FND) and evaluated whether individual psychological therapy improved dissociative symptoms, psychological distress and general functioning.

Visual EMDR stimulation mitigates acute varied stress effects on morphology of hippocampal neurons in male Wistar rats (Frontiers in Psychiatry)

This study looked at “the potential of EMDR as a neuroprotective intervention in mitigating stress-related hippocampal alterations.”

Eye movement intervention facilitates concurrent perception and memory processing (Cerebral Cortex)

This article utilized EEG scans to look at neural activity during eye movements and suggested information facilitation is important in EMDR therapy.

Eye-movement desensitization and reprocessing (Routledge, 2024)

This chapter illustrates similarities in EMDR and memory reconsolidation, in Unlocking the emotional brain: Memory reconsolidation and the psychotherapy of transformational change.

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