Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing and Slow Wave Sleep :: A Putative Mechanism of Action

Marco Pagani; Benedikt L. Amann; Ramon Landin-Romero; Sara Carletto

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01935

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing and Slow Wave Sleep : A Putative Mechanism of Action

Marco Pagani, Benedikt L. Amann, Ramon Landin-Romero, Sara Carletto

Departament de Psiquiatria i Medicina Legal

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El tractament del trastorn d'estrès posttraumàtic amb la tècnica de dessensibilizació i reprocessament mitjançant moviments oculars (EMDR) es considera molt eficaç, i ha demostrat ser un enfocament terapèutic vàlid per a una àmplia gamma d'aplicacions. Tot i això, els mecanismes d'acció de l'EMDR encara no s'entenen del tot bé. Es tracta d'un camp actiu en la investigació clínica i neurofisiològica, on s'han proposat diverses hipòtesis diferents. Aquest article exposa una conjectura que se centra en la similitud entre les ones delta registrades per electroencefalografia durant el son lent (SWS) i les registrades amb l'estimulació bilateral EMDR típica (moviments oculars o tapping alternatiu) durant els records recurrents d'un esdeveniment emocionalment traumàtic. El SWS sembla tenir un paper clau en la consolidació de la memòria i en la reorganització de xarxes funcionals distants, així com els moviments oculars semblen reduir el record episòdic del trauma i afavorir la reconstrucció d'informació associada nova. La hipòtesi del SWS pot explicar com funciona l'EMDR, i també es discuteix a la llum d'altres teories i troballes neurobiològiques.

Idioma original	Anglès
Revista	Frontiers in Psychology
Volum	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01935
Estat de la publicació	Publicada - 2017

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