ArticleFrontiers in psychology2015
Neurobiological response to EMDR therapy in clients with different psychological traumas.
Article in Frontiers in psychology, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT07206381 (EMDR Group Therapy for Earthquake-Exposed Trauma Survivors), which is not on this map. Cited by 13 papers.
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EMDR Group Therapy for Earthquake-Exposed Trauma Survivors: A Randomized Trial of Psychological and QEEG Outcomes
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13 citing papers in PubMed, 34 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing: Efficacy in Improving Clinical, Neuropsychological, and Quality of Life in Women Victims of Violence.Women's health reports (New Rochelle, N.Y.) · 2024Article
- Therapeutic interventions impact brain function and promote post-traumatic growth in adults living with post-traumatic stress disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis of functional magnetic resonance imaging studies.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Spontaneous brain activity, graph metrics, and head motion related to prospective post-traumatic stress disorder trauma-focused therapy response.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2022Article
- ResilienCity: Resilience and Psychotic-Like Experiences 10 Years After L'Aquila Earthquake.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2020Article
- Eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing (EMDR) treatment associated with parent management training (PMT) for the acute symptoms in a patient with PANDAS syndrome: a case report.Italian journal of pediatrics · 2019Article
- How Does Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy Work? A Systematic Review on Suggested Mechanisms of Action.Frontiers in psychology · 2018Article
- Metabolic and Electrophysiological Changes Associated to Clinical Improvement in Two Severely Traumatized Subjects Treated With EMDR-A Pilot Study.Frontiers in psychology · 2018Article
- EMDR as Add-On Treatment for Psychiatric and Traumatic Symptoms in Patients with Substance Use Disorder.Frontiers in psychology · 2017Article
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing and Slow Wave Sleep: A Putative Mechanism of Action.Frontiers in psychology · 2017Article
- Degrading traumatic memories with eye movements: a pilot functional MRI study in PTSD.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2016Article
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10 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
We assessed cortical activation differences in real-time upon exposure to traumatic memory between two distinct groups of psychologically traumatized clients also in comparison with healthy controls. We used electroencephalography (EEG) to compare neuronal activation throughout the bilateral stimulation phase of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) sessions. We compared activation between the first (T0) and the last (T1) session, the latter performed after processing the index trauma. The group including all clients showed significantly higher cortical activity in orbito-frontal cortex at T0 shifting at T1 toward posterior associative regions. However, the subgroup of clients with chronic exposure to the traumatic event showed a cortical firing at both stages which was closer to that of controls. For the first time EEG monitoring enabled to disclose neurobiological differences between groups of clients with different trauma histories during the reliving of the traumatic event. Cortical activations in clients chronically exposed to traumatic memories were moderate, suggesting an association between social and environmental contexts with the neurobiological response to trauma exposure and psychotherapy.
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