The basic EMDR protocol and the Reinforced Resource Protocol (RRP) were used to help a population of students and athletes to face future anxiety-inducing challenges. The aim of this study was to compare the efficiency of all procedures in reducing…
BackgroundPositive closure constitutes the seventh step in the EMDR protocol. It is thought to increase the patient’s belief in a chosen positive verbal material. According to the working memory theory, making eye movements creates a less positive…
Experimental studies show that vividness and emotionality of aversive memories decrease after recall with eye movements. We aimed at replicating this finding. Relatedly, consistent with Conway’s view that memory retrieval is constructive, we examined…
Objective: Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) may affect individuals exposed to adversity. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is an evidence-based trauma-focused psychotherapy for PTSD. There is still some debate whether the eye…
Background and PurposePTSD and mTBI are persistent and frequently comorbid after combat, yet current therapies often achieve only modest impact. A novel exposure-based “walk and talk” cognitive therapy, Motion-Assisted, Multi-Modal Memory…
Eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing (EMDR) is a treatment, developed by Shapiro, that many therapists are finding helpful for treating persons suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other anxiety-related disorders. This…
IntroductionEMDR therapy is effective for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and includes performing eye movements while reactivating the memory. Consequently, the relationship between eye movements and memory has been studied. There are studies…
Previous research reports that children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) show a deficit in their working memory. Working memory is the ability to temporarily manipulate, store, and retrieve information during cognitive tasks.…
Francine Shapiro, the founder of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), reported that the therapeutic use of eye movement patterns was discovered by chance while walking in a park. An alternative accounting for the origins of EMDR…
All psychological treatments aim to achieve healing and mental health through the establishment of a therapeutic alliance between the patient and the therapist,But this alliance is built on the basis of communication,The school of psychoanalysis is…
لعلاجات النفسية في تطور مستمر متخذة منحى الموجات، موجة أولى فثانية فثالثة...، ويعتبر تعقد، عمق وتركيب الأمراض النفسية من أحد الأسباب الرئيسية لهذا التطور، فأصبح الاهتمام بالمريض وليس بالمرض، ومن بين الأمراض الخطيرة التي تهدد وجود الإنسان السرطان،…
Although eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) has been shown to be effective in the treatment of PTSD for years, it remains highly controversial due to the lack of understanding of its mechanisms of action. We examined whether the…
A new dopaminergic regulation hypothesis is proposed based on two experiments exploring eye-movement effects. In the Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) and Saccade-Induced Retrieval Enhancement (SIRE) domains, eye-movement…
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) process encompasses several nervous system components such as medulla, pons, midbrain, cerebellum, basal ganglia, parietal, frontal and occipital lobes. The role of Eye Movement (EM) has been…
Learned helplessness (LH) is considered a psychological trait, which occurs after repeated exposure to aversive and uncontrollable situations (Seligman, 1975). Such an exposure is found to lead motivational, cognitive, and emotional deficits. LH has…
Background: Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing [EMDR] is an innovative, evidence-based and effective psychotherapy for post-traumatic stress disorder [PTSD]. As with other psychotherapies, the effectiveness of EMDR contrasts with a limited…
The study aim was to investigate Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) EMDR therapy on children with post-traumatic disorder (PTSD) in traffic accidents. The research population consists of children 7-11 years old in Tehran city who…
The present research assessed how engaging in bilateral eye movements influences brain activity. Participants had their resting-state brain activity recorded with electroencephalography (EEG) before and after they performed 30 s of bilateral eye…
L’EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) est un traitement des traumatismes utilisé dans le monde entier en centres spécialisés pour les stress post-traumatiques. L’auteur décrit comment il intègre cette nouvelle « technologie » à…
Positief afsluiten is een onderdeel van de EMDR procedure waarbij er oogbewegingen worden gemaakt tijdens het ophalen van positief verbaal materiaal. Het doel van positief afsluiten is o.a. om het positief zelfbeeld van patiënten te versterken.…
L’approche psychothérapeutique intégrative EMDR repose sur des concepts issus d’observation faites dans l’état de stress post-traumatique (ESPT) des données de la biologie [1 ] et sur le modèle du traitement adaptatif de l’information. Dans l’ESPT,…
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a popular treatment for PTSD. However, little is known about the memory effects of EMDR. Using a misinformation paradigm, we examined whether lateral eye movements, as used in EMDR, enhance…
Background and Objectives: Bilateral eye-movements (EMs) and visual mental imagery both require working memory resources. When performed together, they compete for these resources, which can cause various forms of mental imagery to become impaired…
Do eye movements primarily affect emotion, as in Eye-Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing therapy (EMDR), or memory retrieval, as in Saccade-Induced Retrieval Enhancement (SIRE)? Despite growing confidence in the effectiveness of the former, the…
Background and objectives: A growing body of research has shown that negative, intrusive mental imagery plays a prevalent and causal role in social anxiety, and is qualitatively different to voluntarily generated imagery. Negative imagery can be…
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is considered highly efficacious for the treatment of Post-traumatic Stress Disorder and has proved to be a valid treatment approach with a wide range of applications. However, EMDR’s mechanisms of…
EMDR is now considered as an elective treatment for PTSD and its efficacy is being proved in several other psychological conditions. Nevertheless, the EMDR underlying mechanisms of action have not yet been fully clarified. At the moment being,…
Introduction: Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) therapy is an evidence-based treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). A key element of this therapy is simultaneously recalling an emotionally disturbing memory and…
Background: Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) is an effective psychologi-cal treatment for posttraumatic stress disorder. Recalling a memory while simultaneously making eye movements (EM) decreases a memory’s vividness and/or…
We investigated eye movement during past and future thinking. Participants were invited to retrieve past events and to imagine future events while their scan path was recorded by an eye-tracker. Past thinking triggered more fixation (p < .05), and…
Can an experiment be replicated in a mechanical fashion without considering the processes underlying the initial results? Here I will consider a non-replication of Saccade Induced Retrieval Enhancement (SIRE) and argue that it results from focusing…
An effective treatment for posttraumatic stress disorder is eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR). The explanation of the efficacy is captured in the working memory (WM) theory. Both eye movements (EM) and recalling an aversive memory…
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy for posttraumatic stress disorder involves making eye movements (EMs) during recall of a traumatic image. Experimental studies have shown that the dual task decreases self-reported memory…
La desensibilización y el reprocesamiento por medio de movimientos oculares (EMDR) ha suscitado ungran número de estudios desde su aparición en 1989. El objetivo principal de este artículo es describir sudesarrollo y evolución hasta la actualidad.…
En déconstruisant la thérapie de désensibilisation et de retraitement par les mouvements oculaires (EMDR), les chercheurs ont découvert que l’effet des mouvements oculaires sur les souvenirs négatifs est probablement dû à l’administrateur central. On…
La desensibilización y el reprocesamiento por medio de movimientos oculares (EMDR) ha suscitado un gran número de estudios desde su aparición en 1989. El objetivo principal de este artículo es describir su desarrollo y evolución hasta la actualidad.…
Background: Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) is an effective treatment for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). During EMDR, the patient recalls traumatic memories while making eye movements (EMs). Making EMs during recall is…
Background and Objectives During EMDR trauma therapy, performing EM taxes WM, and simultaneously recalled memories become less vivid. It has been proposed that this WM occupation results from CVI which occurs during EM. This study sought to compare…
EMDR is an effective treatment for people diagnosed with posttraumatic stress disorder. The traditional technique of EMDR combines the activation of distressing reminders with guided rhythmic eye movements. The present article reviews the current…
Background: According to the working memory (WM) theory of eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing (EMDR), dual tasks that tax WM during memory recall reduce image vividness and emotionality of memory during future recalls when no dual task is…
Recent outcomes for Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) and Prolonged Exposure (PE) therapy indicate that as many as 60–72% of patients retain their PTSD diagnosis after treatment with CPT or PE. One emerging therapy with the potential to augment…
According to working memory theory, a task that taxes working memory during simultaneous focus on a memory will tend to reduce memory vividness and emotional intensity. Results have been found for both negative and positive memories. Some studies…
Background and objectives: Experimental research suggests that working memory (WM) taxation reduces craving momentarily. Using a modified Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) procedure, prolonged reductions in craving and relapse…
Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) is an effective treatment for posttraumatic stress disorder. During this treatment, patients recall traumatic memories while making horizontal eye movements (EM). Studies have shown that EM not…
In dismantling eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) therapy, researchers have found that the central executive is likely responsible for the effect of eye movements on negative memories. Arguably, however, researchers have not…
Background and Objectives: This study sought to reconcile two lines of research. Previous studies have identified a prevalent and causal role of negative imagery in social phobia and public speaking anxiety; others have demonstrated that lateral eye…
In an investigation of the interhemispheric coherence (IhC) model for eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) bilateral eye movement (BEM) effects, 30 participants were exposed to a stationary dot, a blinking red/green dot, or saccadic…
