Neurobiology Archives

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.

The Network Balance Model of Trauma and Resolution—Level I: Large-Scale Neural Networks (Journal of EMDR Practice and Research)

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

Neurobiological correlates of EMDR therapy effect in PTSD (European Journal of Trauma & Dissociation)

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

Overlapping frontoparietal networks in response to oculomotion and traumatic autobiographical memory retrieval: implications for eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (European Journal of Psychotraumatology)

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

Neurobiological features and response to eye movement desensitization and reprocessing treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder in patients with breast cancer (European Journal of Psychotraumatology)

EMDR compared to treatment as usual in breast cancer patients with PTSD through electroencephalography (EEG) & neurophysiological change.

Psychological and brain connectivity changes following trauma-focused CBT and EMDR treatment in single-episode PTSD patients (Frontiers in Psychology)

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

In the News: Brains That Learn Not to Fear

EMDR therapy is featured in these recent Nature journal articles discussing new findings on brain mechanisms of fear extinction. Learn more in this edition of In the News.

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