EMDR: Eye movements superior to beeps in taxing working memory and reducing vividness of recollections

Behaviour Research and Therapy

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 92-98

  Van den Hout, Marcel A ^a   Engelhard, Iris M ^a   Rijkeboer, Marleen M ^a   Koekebakker, Jutte ^b   Hornsveld, Hellen ^a   Leer, Arne ^a   Toffolo, Marieke B J ^a   Akse, Nienke ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Altrecht Institute of Mental Health Care   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Binaural stimulation; EMDR; Eye movements; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; COGNITIVE THERAPY; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; REACTION TIME; TACTILE STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; EYE MOVEMENT DESENSITIZATION REPROCESSING; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME;

EID: 78751704973     PISSN: 00057967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brat.2010.11.003     Document Type: Article

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