Neurobiology Archives

EMDR as an Adjunctive Psychological Therapy for Patients With Functional Neurological Disorder: Illustrative Case Examples (Journal of EMDR Practice and Research)

Functional neurological disorder (FND) is a common diagnosis in neurology clinics, and there is some evidence psychological therapy can help.

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.

Trauma and the Brain

Discover how trauma affects the brain and how EMDR therapy can help. Learn how it enables the brain to process traumatic memories for healing.

Neurobiology of emotional trauma (Psychiatriki)

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

Successful treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder reverses DNA methylation marks (Molecular Psychiatry)

This study investigated longitudinal changes of blood-based genome-wide DNA methylation levels in relation to trauma-focused psychotherapy for PTSD in soldiers.

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.

Editorial: Present and future of EMDR in clinical psychology and psychotherapy (Frontiers)

This editorial summarizes an increasing scientific and clinical interest in EMDR within the psychological and psychiatric fields world-wide.

Integrated Treatment of Chronic Pain and Chronic Health Conditions

EMDR therapists gain an understanding of the neurobiology of chronic pain and how conditions result from repeated disruption of body systems.

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.

Neurobiological Foundations for EMDR Practice (Springer, 2019)

The book delivers critical new neurobiological research on procedural & emotional learning, early-acquired relational patterns, inter-corporality, and empathy.

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