Cerebral blood flow changes during retrieval of traumatic memories before and after psychotherapy: a SPECT study
Background. Traumatic memory is a key symptom in psychological trauma victims and may remain vivid for several years. Psychotherapy has shown that neither the psychopathological signs of trauma nor the expression of traumatic memories are static over time. However, few studies have investigated the neural substrates of psychotherapy-related symptom changes. Method. We studied 16 subthreshold post-traumatic stress disorder […]
Psychotherapy and Neuroscience: toward closer integration
The original aim of psychology was to study and understand the spirit—from the Latin spiritus, literally‘‘breath.’’ The limitations of scientific methods in the past favoured psychology’s aloofness in terms of studying the ‘‘intangible,’’ while medicine developed methods of examining the body (Latin corpus: essential part).