EMDR Suppresses Amygdala (image)

Society for Neuroscience

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Two human experiments published in JNeurosci demonstrate that a widely used yet controversial psychotherapy technique suppresses fear-related amygdala activity during recall of a traumatic memory.

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de Voogd et al., JNeurosci (2018)

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