Individual prediction of psychotherapy outcome in posttraumatic stress disorder using neuroimaging data (Translational Psychiatry)

This study investigated how functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI/rs-fMRI) data could create personalized treatment for PTSD by studying a group of male veterans..

Pretreatment cortisol predicts trauma-focused psychotherapy response in youth with (partial) posttraumatic stress disorder (Psychoneuroendocrinology)

The objective of the current study was to test whether cortisol prior to treatment would differ between treatment responders and non-responders and would positively predict the extent of clinical improvement in youth with (partial) PTSD.

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.

PET and SPECT in psychiatry: The past and future (European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging)

Paper explore recent technical progresses in PET have the potential to broaden the spectrum of applications of nuclear medicine for both research and clinical investigations using an EMDR study as an example

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.