ArticleEuropean journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging2019
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.
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- The immediate and follow-up effects of EMDR therapy for adults with post-traumatic stress disorder: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.BMC psychology · 2026Pooled it
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- Post-traumatic Stress Disorder: Focus on Neuroinflammation.Molecular neurobiology · 2023Review
- Use of Virtual Reality Techniques to Rehabilitate Military Veterans with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (Review).Sovremennye tekhnologii v meditsine · 2023Review
- Abnormal metabolic connectivity in default mode network of right temporal lobe epilepsy.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Article
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Abstract
purposeThe prevalence of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is higher among veterans, and can lead to disastrous consequences such as suicide. Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) is recommended in first-line psychotherapies for PTSD. Virtual reality exposure (VRE) coupled with 18F-FDG PET imaging can highlight the activated brain regions during stress exposure. The objective of this study is to identify, after EMDR therapy, the regions of brain metabolism that evolve during the stress exposure of a war scene with symptomatic remission in a group of military veterans suffering from PTSD, and to secondarily search for predictive metabolic features.
methodsWe recruited 15 military veterans suffering from PTSD who performed an
resultsThe metabolic activity of the precuneus was increased after EMDR therapy (p < 0.005 uncorrected, k > 180) and correlated with clinical improvement with the CAPS scale (r = -0.73 and p < 0.001). Moreover, the precuneus metabolic value before therapy predicted the clinical improvement on the PCLS scale (T1-T0) after EMDR (r = -0.667 and p < 0.006).
conclusionThe clinical improvement in military patients with PTSD after EMDR is related to increased precuneus metabolism upon VR stress exposure.
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