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  • Psychiatry

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  • Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is linked to inadequately processed traumatic memories.
  • The Adaptive Information Processing (AIP) model explains EMDR's efficacy.
  • Predictive Processing theory posits the brain's primary function is prediction for survival.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose a Predictive Processing model of EMDR.
  • To explain how EMDR facilitates the processing of traumatic memories.
  • To hypothesize EMDR's impact on core PTSD dysfunctions.

Main Methods:

  • The study integrates principles of Predictive Processing with the AIP model of EMDR.
  • It describes how EMDR protocols, including eye movements, overcome biases against evidence accumulation.
  • It details how sensory sampling of the present challenges traumatic memory predictions.

Main Results:

  • EMDR facilitates predictive processing by overcoming biases against evidence accumulation.
  • Eye movements promote sensory sampling, leading to prediction errors.
  • This process results in memory updating (reconsolidation) and recalibration of sensory precision.

Conclusions:

  • EMDR enhances predictive processing of traumatic memories.
  • Successful EMDR treatment is predicted to decrease Attention Bias Variability in PTSD patients.
  • This model offers a neuroscientific explanation for EMDR's effectiveness in PTSD treatment.