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,…
This preliminary study examined the physiological correlates of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) therapy when effectively used to treat trauma symptoms in a postconflict, developing nation, Timor-Leste. Participants were 20…
Recently, readers of the Consults blog posed questions about eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, or E.M.D.R., a psychological therapy pioneered by Francine Shapiro that uses eye movements and other procedures to process traumatic memories.…
Desensitisation and Reprocessing) and REM sleep. [Background] Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) is a new innovative treatment with a high success rate for psychological disturbances rooted in traumatic memory. However, the…
Mycket talar för att EMDR-behandling mot posttraumatisk stress aktiverar samma system i hjärnan som REM-sömn, visar en ny svensk studie. REM-sömn har i normala fall en viktig roll för bearbetning av påfrestande upplevelser.There are many indications…
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing therapy (EMDR) is a psychotherapy that uses rapid eye movements to alleviate traumatic memories. This experiment examined two working memory hypotheses proposed to explain how performing rapid eye…
Research background & objectives: Based on REM-sleep dependent memory reprocessing model, this study examined possible therapeutic mechanisms of eye movements in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR; Shapiro, 1989, 1995, 2001).…
Behandlingsmetoden EMDR – så kallad ögonrörelseterapi – mot posttraumatisk stress (PTS) har länge varit omdiskuterad. Men en ny studie från Karolinska Institutet visar nu att metoden troligen aktiverar REM-systemet, vilket underlättar för patienten…
After a brief overview of the history of dreams and their supposed origins, he sets forth his theory that dreaming is a pivotal aspect in the processing of memory, specifically memory that may have survival value for the organism. Using his research…
Recent evidence (1) that rapid eye movements (REMs) elicited systemically during psychotherapy (Eye Movement Desensitization/Reprocessing (EMD/R) produce immediate and lasting alleviation of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms suggests…
I recently traveled to the South American Rainforest whilst on vacation as I had heard reports that some native peoples use eye movement in healing rituals (e.g., Australian Aboriginals and some South American Indians). As the author of EMDR self-use…
Recent sleep research seems to be consistent with EMDR findings. The standard interpretation of Rapid Eye Movement (REM) during sleep is that they represent the dreamer’s visuals canning with the physical movement represented on his or her dream.…
PTSD is accompanied by disturbance of sleep that may contribute to a positive feedback loop which maintains the PTSD condition. Experimental data will be presented in support of a model of off-line memory reprocessing in which traumatic memories are…