Time-course of eye movement-related decrease in vividness and emotionality of unpleasant autobiographical memories

Memory

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 346-357

  Smeets, Monique A M ^a   Dijs, M Willem ^a   Pervan, Iva ^a   Engelhard, Iris M ^a   van den Hout, Marcel A ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

EMDR; Eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing; Intrusive memory; Mental imagery; Post traumatic stress disorder; PTSD; Transdiagnostic; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; EPISODIC MEMORY; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOTHERAPY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REACTION TIME; REPRODUCIBILITY; SHORT TERM MEMORY; STANDARD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; DESENSITIZATION, PSYCHOLOGIC; EMOTIONS; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGERY (PSYCHOTHERAPY); MALE; MEMORY, EPISODIC; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; REACTION TIME; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84860795719     PISSN: 09658211     EISSN: 14640686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2012.665462     Document Type: Article

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