Letizia Bossini, Emiliano Santarnecchi, Ilaria Casolaro, Despoina Koukouna, Claudia Caterini, Federica Cecchini, Valentina Fortini, Giampaolo Vatti, Daniela Marino, Isabel Fernandez, Alessandro Rossi, Andrea Fagiolini
INTRODUCTION: Few studies have investigated the effects of efficacious psychotherapy on structural alterations of discrete brain regions associated with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). We therefore proposed to evaluate the neurobiological effects of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) on 19 patients with drug-naïve PTSD without comorbidity, matched with 19 untreated healthy controls. METHODS: We administered the Clinician Administered PTSD Scale (CAPS) and conducted brain MRI measurements (with Optimized Voxel-Based Morphometry)...
January 2017: Rivista di Psichiatria