A variety of nervous system components such as medulla, pons, midbrain, cerebellum, basal ganglia, parietal, frontal and occipital lobes have role in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) processes. The eye movement is done simultaneously for attracting client's attention to an external stimulus while concentrating on a certain internal subject. Eye movement guided by therapist i...

The previous chapter looked at the communication characteristics of PDD and attempted to understand these in terms of language processing. It was proposed that in order to understand better the communication difficulties in this population the cognitive processing of this population also needs to be looked at. The current chapter focuses on what is known about cognitive processing in PDD and co...

In the last few decades, several works on cognitive processing during sleep have emerged. The study of cognitive processing with event related potentials (ERPs) during sleep is a topic of great interest, since ERPs allow the study of stimulation with passive paradigms (without conscious response or behavioural response), opening multiple research possibilities during different sleep phases. We ...