Bilateral saccadic eye movements and tactile stimulation, but not auditory stimulation, enhance memory retrieval

Nieuwenhuis, Sander; Elzinga, Bernet M.; Ras, Priscilla H.; Berends, Floris; Duijs, Peter; Samara, Zoe; Slagter, Heleen A.

doi:10.1016/j.bandc.2012.10.003

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“…Studies have shown that this therapeutic modality can aid in altering various brain functions and might be of therapeutic benefit to individuals with high or pathological levels of anxiety or stress [1,2]. The results from these studies using BLAST are consistent with the alternating hemispheric activation hypothesis [3], which postulates that rapidly alternating patterns of electrical activity in the two hemispheres might increase inter-hemispheric interaction.…”

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The Therapeutic Effect of Bilateral Alternating Stimulation Tactile Form Technology on the Stress Response

Serin¹,

Hageman

Каде

2018

JBBS

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The application of bilateral alternating stimulation in tactile (BLAST) form technology, a non-invasive, somatosensory-based method, has been shown to modulate the electrical activity of brain networks that mediate the stress response, resulting in a stress-reducing effect in individuals with high reported levels of anxiety, such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). In this study, we examined archival data from a heterogeneous group of users (n = 1109) of BLAST technology via Touchpoints, a novel BLAST-based treatment modality, all of whom had high self-reported levels of stress and anxiety. Ratings of levels of emotional stress and bodily distress on a scale of 0 (no stress/distress) to 10 (worst stress/distress of one's life) before and after the application of Touchpoints for 30 seconds were entered into an app. Results showed a statistically significant reduction in the levels of both emotional stress and bodily distress, 62.26% and 50.502%, respectively, after 30 seconds of BLAST technology was applied. This demonstrates a clear benefit of BLAST on the stress response, reducing both emotional stress and disturbing body sensations. Recent work examining EEG changes after BLAST technology is applied suggests that BLAST may reduce sympathetic activation by reducing the electrical activity of key areas of the salience network. Further work will more precisely characterize the effects of BLAST, its potential clinical uses, and the mechanisms of actions behind it's apparent stress-reducing effects.

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The Therapeutic Effect of Bilateral Alternating Stimulation Tactile Form Technology on the Stress Response

Serin¹,

Hageman

Каде

2018

JBBS

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“…This and similar findings have been observed across a number of laboratory-based tests assessing different aspects of episodic memory such as: associative recognition and context memory (Parker et al, 2008; Lyle et al, 2012), visual scenes (Parker et al, 2009; Lyle and Jacobs, 2010), landmark shape and spatial location information (Brunyé et al, 2009), and free recall of neutral and emotional words (Samara et al, 2011; Nieuwenhuis et al, 2013). …”

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Effects of Saccadic Bilateral Eye Movements on Episodic and Semantic Autobiographical Memory Fluency

Parker¹,

Parkin²,

Dagnall³

2013

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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Performing a sequence of fast saccadic horizontal eye movements has been shown to facilitate performance on a range of cognitive tasks, including the retrieval of episodic memories. One explanation for these effects is based on the hypothesis that saccadic eye movements increase hemispheric interaction, and that such interactions are important for particular types of memory. The aim of the current research was to assess the effect of horizontal saccadic eye movements on the retrieval of both episodic autobiographical memory (event/incident based memory) and semantic autobiographical memory (fact based memory) over recent and more distant time periods. It was found that saccadic eye movements facilitated the retrieval of episodic autobiographical memories (over all time periods) but not semantic autobiographical memories. In addition, eye movements did not enhance the retrieval of non-autobiographical semantic memory. This finding illustrates a dissociation between the episodic and semantic characteristics of personal memory and is considered within the context of hemispheric contributions to episodic memory performance.

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“…Apart from its primary use in EMDR, the adjunctive use of bilateral audio has also been utilised as a way to enhance PTSD work in other therapeutic approaches such as art therapy (Tripp, ). It has been suggested that alternating bilateral activation of the right and left hemispheres increases their functional connectivity (Nieuwenhuis et al., ), and in so doing can reduce the vividness of negative memories (van den Hout et al., ), and reintegrate information (Herkt et al., ). Research into this “adjunctive” use of bilateral stimulation in other kinds of therapy is still in its early stages, as is research into the differentiation of the effective components of therapies that, like ART and CRM, have bilateral stimulation as integral to their practice.…”

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Moving Forward: New frontiers in treatments for psychological trauma

Kiyimba

2019

Couns and Psychother Res

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Bilateral saccadic eye movements and tactile stimulation, but not auditory stimulation, enhance memory retrieval

Cited by 62 publications

References 38 publications

The Therapeutic Effect of Bilateral Alternating Stimulation Tactile Form Technology on the Stress Response

The Therapeutic Effect of Bilateral Alternating Stimulation Tactile Form Technology on the Stress Response

Effects of Saccadic Bilateral Eye Movements on Episodic and Semantic Autobiographical Memory Fluency

Moving Forward: New frontiers in treatments for psychological trauma

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