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Holmes’ (2019) Nature journal review “Biological Clues to an Enigmatic Treatment [EMDR] for Traumatic Stress”  summarizes Baek et al’s (2019) research. Baek et al.’s Nature journal article “Neural Circuits Underlying a Psychotherapeutic Regimen for Fear Disorders” sheds more light on possible mechanisms of EMDR therapy. “A treatment called eye-movement desensitization and reprocessing alleviates post-traumatic stress disorder through enigmatic mechanisms. A study in mice offers potential clues into the biological basis of this approach.”

The two articles:

• Holmes, A. (2019). Biological clues to an enigmatic treatment for traumatic stress. Nature [News & Views], 566, 335-336. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00294-8
• Baek, J., Lee, S., Cho, T., Kim, S., Kim, M., Yoon, Y., Kim, K. K., Byun, J., Kim, S. J., Jeong, J. & Shin, H. (2019). Neural circuits underlying a psychotherapeutic regimen for fear disorders. Nature, 566, 339-343. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-0931-y

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