Training, Treatment Access, and Research on Trauma Intervention in the Armed Services (Journal of EMDR Practice and Research)
Ability of the U.S. Department of Defense to provide quality mental health services based on clinical training, mental health interventions & funded research of treatments for PTSD.
Omissions and Errors in the Institute of Medicine’s Report on Scientific Evidence of Treatment for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (Journal of EMDR Practice and Research)
Report by the Institute of Medicine concluded that the evidence was inadequate to determine the efficacy of EMDR in the treatment of PTSD.
Present and Accounted For: Sensory Stimulation and Parietal Neuroplasticity (Journal of EMDR Practice and Research)
Directional/bilateral alternating peripheral sensory stimulation appear to assist in the amelioration of a wide range of clinical conditions.
Treatment of Dissociation With EMDR When War Interrupts the Process: The Integration of EMDR With E-Mail Therapy (Journal of EMDR Practice and Research)
Article describes the integration of e-mail correspondence with EMDR treatment for a woman with a fear of driving & dissociative disorder.
Effective psychotherapies for posttraumatic stress disorder: A review and critique (CNS Spectrums)
This report reviews and critiques the psychotherapy literature for the treatment of PTSD and systematically presents data.
Scientific resistance to research, training and utilization of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) therapy in treating post-war disorders (Social Science & Medicine)
The implications of sustained resistance to EMDR for combat veterans and other trauma sufferers are discussed.
A Working Memory Explanation for the Effects of Eye Movements in EMDR (Journal of EMDR Practice and Research)
Study tested working memory theory to investigate the effects of eye movement (EM) on the components of autobiographical memory.
Crucial Processes in EMDR: More Than Imaginal Exposure (Journal of EMDR Practice and Research)
The processes that underlie the effectiveness of EMDR are examined by evaluating the procedural differences between it and exposure therapy.
Interhemispheric Interaction and Saccadic Horizontal Eye Movements: Implications for Episodic Memory, EMDR, and PTSD (Journal of EMDR Practice and Research)
The body of literature on the effects of bilateral saccadic eye movements, patterned after those employed in EMDR, on memory is reviewed.
Psychophysiological Studies of EMDR (Journal of EMDR Practice and Research)
This article describes research on the effects of eye movements during authentic EMDR sessions of chronic PTSD in refugees of war and torture.
Sleep-Dependent Memory Processing and EMDR Action (Journal of EMDR Practice and Research)
The possibility that bilateral stimulation induces a brain/mind state similar to that of rapid eye movement sleep is supported by studies.
The Neurobiology of EMDR: Exploring the Thalamus and Neural Integration (Journal of EMDR Practice and Research)
One underlying mechanism of EMDR stimulation (BLS) is likely thalamic activation specifically of the ventrolateral and central-lateral nuclei.
