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EMDR and mindfulness. Eye movements and attentional breathing tax working memory and reduce vividness and emotionality of aversive ideation
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- 자료유형학술지논문
- 저자명van den Hout, M. A.,Engelhard, I. M.,Beetsma, D.,Slofstra, C.,Hornsveld, H.,Houtveen, J.,Leer, A.
- 학회/출판사/기관명Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam.
- 출판년도2011
- 언어영어
- 학술지명/학위논문주기JOURNAL OF BEHAVIOR THERAPY AND EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHIATRY
- 발행사항Vol.42No.4[2011]_x000D_
- ISBN/ISSN0005-7916
- 소개/요약Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) and Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) are effective in reducing the subjective impact of negative ideation. In both treatments, patients are encouraged to engage in a dual-task (eye movements (EM) in the case of EMDR and attentional breathing (AB) in the case of MBCT) while they experience negative thoughts or images. Working memory theory explains the effects of EM by suggesting that it taxes limited working memory resources, thus rendering the image less vivid and emotional. It was hypothesized that both AB and EM tax working memory and that both reduce vividness and emotionality of negative memories. Working memory taxation by EM and AB was assessed in healthy volunteers by slowing down of reaction times. In a later session, participants retrieved negative memories during recall only, recall + EM and recall + AB (study 1). Under improved conditions the study was replicated (study 2). In both studies and to the same degree, attentional breathing and eye movements taxed working memory. Both interventions reduced emotionality of memory in study 1 but not in study 2 and reduced vividness in study 2 but not in study 1. EMDR is more than EM and MBCT is more than AB. Memory effects were assessed by self reports. EMDR and MBCT may (partly) derive their beneficial effects from taxing working memory during recall of negative ideation.
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