Mprovement of mood and sleep alterations in posttraumatic stress disorder patients by eye movement desensitization and reprocessing

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue JUNE, 2014, Pages

  Raboni, Mara R ^a   Alonso, Fabiana F D ^b   Tufik, Sergio ^a   Suchecki, Deborah ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b Clinical Microbiology Section   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Depression; EMDR; Posttraumatic stress disorder; Psychotherapy; Sleep fragmentation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MOOD DISORDER; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL BEING; QUALITY OF LIFE; SLEEP DISORDER; SLEEP PATTERN; SLEEP QUALITY; SLEEP TIME; THERAPY EFFECT; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

EID: 84902266243     PISSN: 16625153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2014.00209     Document Type: Article

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