Testing Wong’s theory on the flash technique with published timing data for healthy subjects (Journal of EMDR Practice and Research)

This study uses currently available timing data on spontaneous blinking to examine mechanisms of action for the flash technique (FT) in healthy subjects.

Exploring inter-subject variability in the emotional domain to characterize typical and atypical neural responses in longitudinal settings: Insights from eye movement desensitization and reprocessing rehabilitative treatment (Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation – Preprint)

This study found that looking at differences between individuals’ brain responses can reveal meaningful brain changes after therapy, showing that EMDR reduced brain variability in people with multiple sclerosis alongside improvements in depression, even when standard analyses showed no change.

Investigating intersubject neural variability in fMRI during emotional processing to assess EMDR treatment effects on depression in multiple sclerosis (Journal of the Neurological Sciences)

This study utilized fMRI imaging as a way to investigate and measure underlying neural plasticity for emotional processing deficits such as those found in people with Multiple Sclerosis who experience depression.

Bilateral stimulation: Differential effects in EEG and peripheral physiology (BJPsych Open)

This study examined the physiological effects of visual and tactile BLS on frontal electroencephalography (EEG) activity and autonomic arousal in patients with PTSD and healthy controls.

Does treating emotional memories come at a price? Effects of single-session EMDR, imaginal exposure, and imagery rescripting on forced-choice recognition of event details in healthy adults (Behaviour Research and Therapy)

This laboratory study addressed concerns of impaired memory accuracy in trauma treatment, and tested whether a single session of EMDR, IE, or ImRs affects forced-choice recognition in healthy adults.

Addiction focused EMDR therapy to treat sexual addiction in an individual with a sexual offense history: Self-report and wearable device report in a single case design (Sexual Health & Compulsivity)

This study investigated the efficacy of Addiction Focused EMDR (AF-EMDR) therapy interventions in patients struggling with sexual addiction, and aimed to determine if AF-EMDR therapy reduced craving for explicit content and other symptoms of sexual addiction.

Affect-Focused EMDR: Clinical Strategies for Working with Relational Trauma (Journal of EMDR Practice and Research)

This theoretical article explores affect-focused EMDR, which posits that the reprocessing of affect is central to the EMDR process, rather than the reprocessing of memories or mental representations.

Dual-task interventions reduce vividness and unpleasantness in both old and new memories (Behaviour Research and Therapy)

This study provides insight into memory consolidation, dual-task effectiveness and interventions, and EMDR.

Eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing as a potential treatment for substance use disorders: Study protocol (European Journal of Psychotraumatology)

This study aims to investigate the efficacy of EMDR in substance use disorder (SUD) patients with comorbid psychological trauma.

A common denominator: PTSD, rapid eye movements, and fear extinction (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.

Stress and stress reactivity in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) following eye movement desensitization (EMD): A randomized controlled trial (Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry)

Study evaluated if EMD participants had less stress reactivity than retrieval-only participants after personal trauma scripts and examined changes in daily cortisol levels related to treatment outcomes.

Disentangling eye movement desensitization and reprocessing mechanisms of action: The impact of eye movements in the eye blink conditioning task (Psychology and Psychotherapy Theory, Research, and Practice)

This study aimed to explore an EMDR mechanism of action by investigating the effect of horizontal eye movements (EM) on fear extinction learning in healthy individuals, using an Eye Blink Conditioning (EBC) task.