Improvement of mood and sleep alterations in posttraumatic stress disorder patients by eye movement desensitization and reprocessing
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Improvement of mood and sleep alterations in posttraumatic stress disorder patients by eye movement desensitization and reprocessing
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) patients exhibit depressive and anxiety symptoms, in addition to nightmares, which interfere with sleep continuity. Pharmacologic treatment of these sleep problems improves PTSD symptoms, but very few studies have used psychotherapeutic interventions to treat PTSD and examined their effects on sleep quality. Therefore, in the present study, we sought to inve...
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عنوان ژورنال: Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1662-5153
DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2014.00209