Cracking the EMDR code: Recruitment of sensory, memory and emotional networks during bilateral alternating auditory stimulation
@article{Rousseau2020CrackingTE, title={Cracking the EMDR code: Recruitment of sensory, memory and emotional networks during bilateral alternating auditory stimulation}, author={Pierre-François Rousseau and Sarah Boukezzi and René Garcia and Thierry Chaminade and St{\'e}phanie Khalfa}, journal={Australian \& New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry}, year={2020}, volume={54}, pages={818 - 831} }
Introduction: The inability to extinguish a conditioned fear is thought to be at the core of post-traumatic stress disorder. Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing therapy has been efficacious for post-traumatic stress disorder, but the brain mechanisms underlying the effect are still unknown. The core effect of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing therapy seems to rely on the simultaneous association of bilateral alternating stimulation and the recall of the traumatic memory…
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