Pre-treatment cortisol awakening response predicts symptom reduction in posttraumatic stress disorder after treatment (Psychoneuroendocrinology)
Are treatment successes in PTSD associated with changes in cortisol secretion, assessed by HPA-axis function, before & after trauma therapy?
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A randomized controlled trial comparing EMDR and CBT for obsessive-compulsive disorder (Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy)
Study aimed to evaluating EMDR as a treatment for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), by comparison to cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT).
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EMDR for depression: A systematic review of controlled trials (Clinical Neuropsychiatry)
This review summarizes literature before 2017 on the efficacy of EMDR in patients with depression.
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Validation of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and complex TPSD using the International Trauma Questionnaire (Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 2017)
A study using a newly developed, disorder-specific measure of PTSD and CPTSD called the International Trauma Questionnaire (ITQ).
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Validation of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and complex PTSD using the International Trauma Questionnaire (Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica)
Study using International Trauma Questionnaire (ITQ) to explore PTSD vs. CPTSD, and to compare ICD-11 to DSM-5 on PTSD diagnostic rates.
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Treatment of intrusive suicidal imagery using eye movements (International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health)
Eye Movement Dual Task (EMDT) treatment for suicidal intrusions, describing techniques used to target these suicidal mental images.
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Comparison of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing therapy, cognitive behavioral writing therapy, and wait-list in pediatric posttraumatic stress disorder following single-incident trauma: a multicenter randomized clinical trial (Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry)
EMDR and Cognitive Behavior Writing Therapy yielded equally large remission rates for PTSD in children and adolescents.
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Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing: Trauma-centered psychotherapy in patients with refugee background (Psychotherapeut)
Intercultural trauma-centered psychotherapy using EMDR with professionally trained interpreter in refugee and asylum seeker patients.
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Early Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) intervention in a disaster mental health care context (Psychology, Health & Medicine)
This study suggest that EMDR is a viable treatment in response to a disaster crisis in reducing psychological distress of individuals.
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Meta-Analysis of Trauma-Focused Therapies for Treating the Symptoms of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (American Counseling Association)
Meta-analysis of 46 studies published between 1997 and 2015 comparing trauma-focused therapies for the treatment of PTSD.
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Exploring expectation effects in EMDR: Does prior treatment knowledge affect the degrading effects of eye movements on memories? (European Journal of Psychotraumatology)
Study designed to test whether expectations about the working mechanism of EMDR would alter the memory attenuating effects of eye movements.
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Bilateral alternating auditory stimulations facilitate fear extinction and retrieval (Frontiers in Psychology)
An animal model of fear recovery showed that BLS facilitate fear extinction and fear extinction retrieval, can this work in humans too?
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