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안구운동 민감 소실 및 재처리 요법(Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) 치료 후 국소 뇌 혈류 변화：두 증례의 SPECT 연구Changes in the regional cerebral perfusion after EMDR: A SPECT study of two cases

Over the last decade, EMDR(Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) has emerged as a promising new treatment for trauma and other anxiety-based disorders. However, neurobiological mechanism of EMDR has not been well understood. Authors report…

Tags: Adult, Brain Imaging, Car Accident, Female, Koreans, Neurophysiology, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Psychiatric Inpatients, PTSD, Rape, SPECT, Survivor, Treatment Effectiveness

공포 영화 장면 노출 후 수평적 안구 운동이 심박수 변이도에 미치는 영향 Effect of horizontal eye movements on the heart rate variability after exposure to a fear-inducing film clip

목적 : 안구 운동 둔감에서 안구 운동의 역할과 재 처리 (EMDR)에 대한 지속적인 논쟁이 있었다. 이 연구는 공포 자극에 노출 된 후 수평 안구 운동의 가능한 자율 효과를 조사 하였다. 방법 : 쉰이 건강한 성인 여성은 무작위로 5 분 공포 유도 필름 클립을 시청 후 안구 운동 또는 눈을 고정 그룹에 할당되었다. ECG는 클립 및 치료를 시청 한 후, 휴지 상태 동안 기록 하였다. 심박수의 분광 분석을 수행 하였다. 변수가 정규 분포의…

Tags: Autonomic Nervous System, Eye Movements, Fear, Female, Film Clip, Heart Rate Variability, Horitzontal, Korean

眼球運動による脱感作と再処理法(EMDR)の急性ストレス障害(ASD)を示した阪神淡路大震災被災者への適用 : ストレス障害に対するストレスの少ない治療法 Application of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) to ASD survivors of the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake: Treatment with less stress for stress disorder

市井雅哉眼球運動による脱感作と再処理法(EMDR)の急性ストレス障害(ASD)を示した阪神淡路大震災被災者への適用: ストレス障害に対するストレスの少ない治療法バイオフィードバック研究日本バイオフィードバック学会…

Tags: Acute Stress Disorder, ASD, Clinical Case Study, Clinical Trial, Earthquakes, Female, Natural Disaster Survivor, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Survivor, Treatment Outcome

Women's trauma and healing in Japanese culture

This dissertation explores the reality of women's trauma and the effective treatment for traumatized women in Japanese culture. Current research on PTSD supports the universality of many of the biologically determined components of PTSD experiences,…

Tags: Adult, Cross Cultural Assessment, Cross Cultural Treatment, Diagnostic Validity, Empirical Study, Female, Japanese, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Stressor, Survivor

Vajinismusun EMDR yöntemi ile tedavisi: İki olgu sunumu Treatment of vaginismus with EMDR: A report of two cases

Vajinismus kadının vajina kaslarındaki istemsiz kasılmalar nedeniyle hiçbir şekilde cinsel ilişkinin gerçekleşemediği bir cinsel işlev bozukluğudur. Vajinismus için temel tanı kriteri vajinanın dış üçte birindeki kaslarda koitusu engelleyecek,…

Tags: Adult, Desensitization, Female, Humans, Psychologic, Sexual Behavior, Vaginismus, Wounds and Injuries

Utilizing EMDR and DBT techniques in trauma and abuse recovery groups

Marsha Linehan's dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) is a wonderfully effective treatment for people with borderline personality. It is a non-blaming, compassionate, therapeutic approach, based solidly on research data about what borderline…

Tags: Adult, Borderline Personality Disorder, Cognitive Therapy, Comorbidity, DBT, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Female, Group Psychotherapeutic Process, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Psychotherapy, PTSD, Stressor, Survivor

Using eye movement desensitization and reprocessing to treat complex PTSD in a biracial client

A biracial client's recovery from PTSD through the use of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) is discussed to illustrate the interaction between ethnicity and phenotype as well as diagnosis and treatment considerations. This case…

Use of EMDR in a "dementing" PTSD survivor

Presents a case study of a 72-yr-old woman with dementia to examine the usefulness of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) in treating posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in "dementing" elderly. EDMR is a therapeutic tool in which…

Tags: Aged, Americans, Case Study, Cognitive Disorder, Death of Spouse, Elder Abuse, Empirical Study, Female, Psychiatric Inpatient, PTSD, Rape, Survivor

Treatment providers' perceptions of treatment effectiveness with female juvenile sex offenders

This study investigated how treatment providers working with juvenile sexual offenders perceive treatment effectiveness of current treatment modalities for juvenile female sexual offenders. According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation statistics…

Tags: Female, Juveniles, Sex Offender, Treatment Effectiveness, Treatment Provider

Treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder using eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing: Two case studies

In my experience of using EMDR with clients from Latin American backgrounds, a number of old traumatic experiences emerge earlier in the process of therapy than conventional psychotherapeutic treatment. These memories were mainly related to life…

Tags: Argentines, Australians, Case Study, Central Americans, Dog Bite, Female, Immigrant, Middle Aged, Multiple Traumatic Events, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Surgical Procedure, Survivor, Treatment Effectiveness

Treatment of choking phobia by targeting traumatic memories with EMDR: A case study

Choking phobia is a specific phobia characterized by fear and avoidance of swallowing foods and liquids. It often develops following an episode of choking on food. A prospective case study of a 30-year-old woman with a phobia of choking, acquired…

Tags: Adult, Female, Medical Procedures, Multiple Traumatic Events, Phobias, Report, Survivor, Treatment Effectiveness

Treating traumatic memories: A case report on the eye movement desensitization procedure

There are at present three published papers on the eye movement desensitization procedure. This paper reports two successfully treated cases, one with traumatic memories of childhood sexual abuse, and the other based on memories of a terminally ill…

Tags: Case Study, Child Abuse, Death of Sibling, Female, Interpersonal Interaction, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Rape, Survivor, Young Adults

Traumatic blood contact between mother and daughter: Condition for anorexia of the female adolescent

My new theory is that Anorexia of the Female Adolescent, in addition to the girl’s psychological causes, needs a biological condition: “Different mother/daughter blood types (0, A, B, AB) and traumatic contact between the two blood types during…

Tags: Adolescents, Anorexia, Blood Contact, Female

Trauma-focused therapy in early intervention for psychosis settings: Results of a feasibility RCT of 'EMDR for psychosis'

Trauma is particularly prevalent amongst Early Intervention (EI) patients and is associated with adverse clinical and prognostic outcomes. To determine the feasibility of a large-scale randomized controlled trial (RCT) of an 'EMDR for psychosis'…

The use of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing in the treatment of psychogenic seizures

We present a case illustrating the use of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) in the treatment of psychogenic seizures. These seizures were events lasting many hours, necessitating frequent emergency room visits and an extensive…

Tags: Adult, Australians, Clinical Case Study, Cognitive Therapy, Empirical Study, Family Therapy, Female, Male, Psychotherapeutic Processes, Self Report Instrument, Spouse, Treatment Effectiveness, Vietnam, War

The successful treatment of PTSD through overt cognitive behavioral therapy in non-responders to EMDR

This research investigated the efficacy of an operantly cognitive-behavioural trauma treatment protocol (TTP) in two cases that had previously been treated unsuccessfully with EMDR. In line with previous research, both participants improved following…

The role of eye-movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) in the interdisciplinary treatment of low sexual desire women

Low sexual desire disorder is the most common sexual dysfunction in women. There is no standard definition for "normal" sexual desire and there are many factors that can influence it, hence, low desire can be one of the more difficult sexual…

Tags: Female, Inhibited Sexual Desire, Low Sexual Desire, Sexual Abuse

The relative effectiveness of EMDR versus relaxation training with battered women prisoners

5 women prisoners with a history of being battered and who met the DSM-IV criteria for PTSD were assessed (A phase) and provided with structured relaxation training (RT) (B phase, or placebo treatment), followed by eye movement desensitization and…

The invisible volcano: Overcoming denial of rage

The case in this chapter integrates EMDR and interpretive short-term dynamic therapy as contrasted with cognitive, interpersonal, or existential short-term therapies. I became interested in Davanloo's technique of intensive short-term dynamic…

Tags: Adult, Americans, Anger, Anxiety Disorder, Brief Psychotherapy, Case Study, Child Abuse, Defense Mechanisms, Depressive Disorder, Female, Life Experience, Psychotherapeutic Processes, Survivor, Treatment Effectiveness

The imprint of childhood physical and emotional abuse: A case study on the use of EMDR to address anxiety and lack of self-esteem

This article examines the use of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) in helping a client address problems with persistent anxiety and a lack of self-esteem. During EMDR treatment, the client explored the dichotomous thinking that had…

Tags: Adult, Anxiety, Child Abuse, Childhood Emotional Abuse, Childhood Physical Abuse, Clinical Case Study, Emotional Abuse, Empirical Study, Female, Lack of Self-Esteem, Patient History, Self-Esteem

The EMDR integrative group treatment protocol: Application with child victims of a mass disaster

The EMDR Integrative Group Treatment protocol (EMDR-IGTP) has been used in different parts of the world since 1998 with both adults and children after natural or man-made disasters. This protocol combines the eight standard EMDR treatment phases with…

Tags: Children, Death of Parent, Explosion, Female, Group Psychotherapy, Group Treatment, Human-Provoked Disaster, Industrial Accidents, Latin American, Male, Mexican, Non-Randomized Study, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Psychotherapeutic Processes, PTSD, School Age Children, Survivor, Treatment Effectiveness

The efficacy of EMDR for survivors of a natural disaster: Intervention after Hurricane Floyd

Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) is considered effective for civilian PTSD, but no controlled evaluation of EMDR, or any other treatment for PTSD, has been conducted with adults in a natural disaster context. Following Hurricane…

Tags: Adult, Americans, Depressive Disorder, Female, Hurricane Floyd, Hurricanes, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Randomized Controlled Trial, RCT, Recent Event, Survivor, Treatment Effectiveness

The effectiveness of EMDR with adult female survivors of childhood sexual abuse

A randomized experimental evaluation found support for the effectiveness of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) in reducing trauma symptoms among adult female survivors of childhood sexual abuse. 59 women were assigned randomly to…

Tags: Adult, Americans, Brief Psychotherapy, Child Abuse, Empirical Study, Female, Follow-up Study, Longitudinal Study, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Practice Effectiveness, PTSD, Randomized Controlled Trial, Rape, RCT, Self Efficacy, Survivor, Trauma, Treatment Effectiveness

The effect of varying the rate of the eye movements in eye movement desensitization reprocessing (EMDR) with battered women

The rapid saccades used in eye movement desensitization reprocessing (EMDR) have been reputed to be critical to its efficacy. To evaluate this hypothesis, the rate of the eye movements was varied in this study. Subjects included 27 battered women who…

Tags: Adult, Americans, Battery, Clinical Trial, Empirical Study, Female, Follow-up Study, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Spouse Abuse, Survivor, Treatment Effectiveness, Treatment Outcome

The counting method: Applying the rule of parsimony to the treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder

A study is described comparing Prolonged Exposure, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, and the Counting Method with 51 multiply-traumatized women. Measures of PTSD were significantly reduced by all three methods, but differences among the…

Tags: Adult, Counting Method, Exposure Therapy, Female, Imaginal Exposure, Multiple Traumatic Events, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Survivor, Treatment Effectiveness, Women

The contributions of eye movements to the efficiacy of brief exposure treatment for reducing fear of public speaking

The present study was designed to isolate the effects of the eye-movement component of the Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) procedure in the treatment of fear of public speaking. Seventy-one undergraduate psychology students who…

Tags: Americans, Clinical Trial, College Students, Empirical Study, Experimental Stressor, Female, Phobias, Psychophysiology, Treatment Effectiveness, Treatment Outcome

Sexual abuse survivors’ perceptions of the effectiveness of EMDR and eclectic therapy

Objective: This article examines survivor perspectives of the effectiveness of two different treatments for trauma symptoms among adult female survivors of childhood sexual abuse -- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) and eclectic…

Tags: Adult, Americans, Child Abuse, Depressive Disorder, Empirical Study, Female, Individual Psychotherapy, Mixed Method, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Psychotherapeutic Processes, PTSD, Quantitative Study, Randomized Controlled Trial, Rape, RCT, Survivor, Treatment Effectiveness

Scientific investigations into EMDR (Part I) - Brief psychological intervention with young high-risk females: A comparison of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing with active reflective listening

Tags: Americans, Battery, Child Abuse, Effects, Emotional Abuse, Female, Incest, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Randomized Controlled Trial, Rape, RCT, Stressor, Survivor, Treatment Effectiveness, Young Adults

Scientific investigations into EMDR (Part I) - A controlled study of eye movement desensitization in the treatment of post-traumatic stress disordered sexual assault victims

Tags: Adult, Americans, Female, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Randomized Controlled Trial, Rape, RCT, Survivor, Treatment Effectiveness

Salivary cortisol levels and the cortisol response to dexamethasone before and after EMDR: A case report

Trauma survivors with PTSD have been shown to have lower basal cortisol levels in the urine, plasma, and saliva than in trauma survivors without PTSD, nontraumatized mentally ill, or healthy subjects. We report on a case study in which we measured…

Tags: Battery, Biologic Marker, Brief Psychotherapy, Case Study, Clinical Case Study, Cortisol, Dexamethasone Suppression Test, Empirical Study, Female, Legal Procedure, Middle Aged, Multiple Traumatic Events, Neuroendocrinology, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Rape, Survivor, Treatment Effectiveness

Response to Lipke's comment

Lipke's criticisms of the experiment reported by Bates and colleagues are without merit. Data from the experiment show either that the procedure was sound or that the clinical measurement reported by eye-movement densitization (EMD) therapists is…

Tags: EMD, Eye Movement Desensitization, Female, Letter, Phobias, Reply, Spider Phobia

Repairing failures in bonding through EMDR

Maternal-infant bonding is an intense emotional tie between mother and infant that often begins during pregnancy and continues after birth. Prolonged physical separation from one's infant or traumatic interference can sometimes impede this process,…

Tags: Attachment, Bonding, Case Study, Clinical Case Study, Female, Integrative Psychotherapy, Maternal, Maternal Infant Bonding, Mother Child Relations, Parenting Behavior, Physical Separation, Pregnancy, Separation Reaction, Stressor, Survivor, Trauma

Rape treatment outcome research: Empirical findings and state of the literature

This article reviews empirical support for treatments targeting women sexually assaulted during adolescence or adulthood. 32 articles were located using data from 20 separate samples. Of the 20 samples, 12 targeted victims with chronic symptoms, 3…

Tags: Adult, Cognitive Therapy, Drug Therapy, Epidemiology, Exposure Therapy, Female, Literature Review, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Psychotherapy, PTSD, Rape, Survivor, Treatment, Treatment Effectiveness

Primum non nocere (First do no harm): Symptom worsening and improvement in female assault victims after prolonged exposure for PTSD

Background: Prolonged Exposure (PE) therapy is an efficacious treatment for PTSD; despite this, many clinicians do not utilize it due to concerns it could cause patient decompensation. Method: Data were pooled from four published well-controlled…

Tags: Assault Victim, Female, PE, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Prolonged Exposure, PTSD

Preliminary evidence of efficacy for EMDR resource development and installation in the stabilization phase of treatment of complex posttraumatic stress disorder

This article reviews the complexity of adaptation and symptomatology in adult survivors of childhood neglect and abuse who meet criteria for the proposed diagnosis of Complex PTSD, also known as Disorders of Extreme Stress, Not Otherwise Specified…

Tags: Adult, Child Abuse, Complex Empirical Study, Female, Neglect, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Psychotherapeutic Processes, PTSD, RDI, Review, Survivor, Treatment Effectiveness

Postpartum depression: Helping a new mother to bond

"Karen" was a young mother who came to me in desperate shape, suffering from acute postpartum depression, unable to bond with, or to take care of, her new baby. This case demonstrates how a therapist can skillfully integrate EMDR with dreams,…

Tags: Adult, Americans, Bonding, Case Study, Childbirth, Depressive Disorder, Female, Psychotherapeutic Processes, Survivor, Treatment Effectiveness

Post-traumatic stress disorder overcome by eye movement desensitization: A case report

PTSD is an exceptionally stressful syndrome that has been extremely difficult to treat. The prognosis was recently dramatically improved by the introduction of eye-movement desensitization. This paper reports, in substantial detail, a case that was…

Tags: Adult, Americans, EMD, Eye Movement Desensitization, Female, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Rape, Survivor

Peaceful heart: A woman's journey of healing

Although I had a relatively happy childhood, I picked up many unspoken messages from the people around me about my physical body and my self-worth. At age 17, I was brutally beaten and raped in my family home. Based upon these often misinterpreted…

Tags: Adult, Americans, Effects, Female, Personal Narrative, Rape, Survivor

Outcome research on behavioral and cognitive-behavioral treatments for trauma survivors

In this chapter, we describe the current status of outcome research on behavioral and cognitive-behavioral therapy for PTSD. In this endeavor, we describe these treatments and outline their empirical foundations, providing rationale for their use. We…

Tags: Americans, Behavior Therapy, Child Abuse, Cognitive Therapy, Female, Male, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Rape, Survivor, Treatment Effectiveness, Veterans, Vietnam, War

Opmerkelijke veranderingen na één zitting met eye movement desensitization and reprocessing: Een geval van angst voor misselijkheid en braken Noteworthy changes after one session with eye movement desensitization and reprocessing: A case of fear of nausea and vomiting

In deze bijdrage worden enkele principes van Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) beschreven. Met name het ‘reprocessing’ gedeelte van deze procedure wordt nader toegelicht, waaronder de selectie van negatieve en positieve cognities…

Tags: Adult, Case Study, Dutch, Female, Phobias

Occurrence and treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder in an elderly patient after a traffic accident

In our present study, we report on the development of PTSD after a traffic accident and present the trauma-specific treatment with Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR). Despite the controversy about its novelty and other competing…

Tags: Aged, Car Accident, Case Study, Female, Germans, Headache, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Treatment Effectiveness

My worst nightmare: A nurse's personal account of assault and recovery

A personal account of a psychiatric nurse's attack by a patient and her direct experience with PTSD.

Tags: Adult, Americans, Battery, Female, Injury, Nurse, Personal Narrative, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Survivor, Treatment Effectiveness, Workplace Trauma

Multicenter randomized controlled trial on the provision of the EMDR-PRECI to female minors victims of sexual and/or physical violence and related PTSD

This longitudinal multicenter randomized controlled trial has three objectives 1) to evaluate the EMDR-PRECI in the remission of the PTSD Diagnosis on female minors who were victims of sexual and/or physical violence compared to treatment as usual…

Tags: Anxiety, Depression, EMDR-PRECI, Female, Female Minor, Minors, Physical Violence, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Sexual Violence

Marital therapy, EMDR, Herman's model of recovery from trauma: The journey of one woman and her family

Judith Herman delineates a 3-stage model of recovery from trauma: (1) Safety; (2) Remembrance and Mourning; (3) Reconnection. She criticises current treatment methods for their failure to make a difference in the "constrictive symptoms of numbing and…

Tags: Adult, Australians, Car Accident, Child Abuse, Family Therapy, Female, Marital Issue, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Survivor, Treatment Effectiveness

Lifting the burden of shame: Using EMDR resource installation to resolve a therapeutic impasse

With Meredith, what had seemed an insurmountable impasse using a standard PTSD protocol had become amenable to significant resolution when addressed with a non-standard protocol. The key to this approach was to install multiple positive resources…

Tags: Adult, Case Study, Child Abuse, Defense Mechanism, Disease, Female, Neglect, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Psychotherapeutic Process, PTSD, Survivor, Treatment Effectiveness

It takes a village: Caring for a traumatized art student

One of the fascinating developments in mental health care in the last decade has been the appearance of specific psychotherapies for various psychiatric illnesses. Perhaps the best known of these is dialetical behavior therapy (DBT), pioneered by…

Tags: Borderline Personality Disorder, Case Study, Child Abuse, Cognitive Therapy, College Students, Drug Therapy, European American, Female, Incest, Individual Psychotherapy, Partial Hospitalization, Psychotherapeutic Processes, PTSD, Rape, Survivor, Young Adults

Intimate partners: A context for the intensification and healing of emotional pain

A case of a lesbian couple is presented in which one partner experienced early sexual abuse and the other a series of major losses (beginning with the death of her mother) in early childhood. The first partner developed an alcohol addiction and the…

Tags: Adult, Americans, Case Study, Child Abuse, Family Therapy, Female, Homosexual, Incest, Interpersonal Interaction, Psychiatric Disorders, Rape, Survivor

Intérêt de la psychothérapie « eye movement desensitization reprocessing » dans le cadre de la prise en charge de femmes victimes de viols conjugaux Benefits of "eye movement desensitization and reprocessing" psychotherapy in the treatment of female victims of intimate partner rape

L’objectif de cette étude est de mettre en évidence à partir du suivi de six femmes victimes de viols par leur conjoint, les effets de la thérapie « eye movement desensitization reprocessing », notamment en ce qui concerne la réduction des symptômes…

Tags: Anxiety, Depression, Female, Marital Rape, Partner Rape, Victims, Women

Integrierte traumaassoziierte kurzzeittherapie für akuttraumatisierte (INTAKT)1 - Ergebnisse einer pilot-studie zur wirksamkeit von ressourcenorientierter behandlung in der gruppe und EMDR Integrated trauma associated short-term psychotherapy for acute traumatized patients (INTAKT ) - Results from a study including a small population (n=16) about the effectiveness of ressource-oriented treatment in groups in combination with EMDR (eye movement desensitization and reprocessing)

Die INTAKT (Integrated traumaassociated kurzfristige Psychotherapie) eingeführt wurde, eine Intervention in einem "Ambulante Ressource-orientierten Gruppe" ARG für akute traumatisierten Patienten in Kombination mit EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization…

Tags: Adult, Behavior Therapy, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, DSM, Female, Human, Imagination, Male, Psychotherapy, Psychotrauma, Treatment Outcome

Innovative therapies for trauma related disorders: TARGET, TREM, and EMDR

In this chapter, Marvasti and Colt explore the victims' response to trauma and examine nontraditional treatment models for psychological trauma. The TARGET model (Trauma Adaptive Recovery Group Education and Therapy) of treatment focuses on current…

Tags: Emotional Trauma, Empowerment, Female, Group Education and Therapy, Group Psychotherapy, Human Females, Models, Nontraditional Treatment Model, Psychological Trauma, Sexual Abuse, Symptoms, Target, Trauma Adaptive Recovery Group Education and Therapy, Trauma Recovery and Empowerment Model, Treatment, TREM, Victimization, Victims

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