Monitor EMDR transition states and effectiveness

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a recognized first-line treatment for psychological trauma and is a proven valid treatment for a wide range of emotionally laden applications including PTSD and anxiety.

The Clinical NueroCoach® Training System for Clinicians is specifically designed for therapists, clinicians, and medical/health facilities.  The NeuroCoach® Training System offers a Clinical Use Only Module for clinical providers and their clients based on diagnostic codes, therapeutic assessments, Predictive Analytics Report, NeuroCodex® evaluations, brain map and client history.

Clinicians who use the NeuroCoach® EMDR Module (real time EMDR Monitoring) are able to be more effective in their EMDR therapy sessions. This is due to NeuroCoach® EMDR Module’s ability to monitor the brain’s specific changes as it “relearns” or reprocesses the emotional event/s. This allows the client to discharge or clear the emotional trauma. Clinicians are able, by viewing brain response measurements, to ensure the brain has indeed processed the traumatic event such that it no longer contains the emotionally laden negative effect it once had.

Several neuroimaging investigations demonstrate EMDR’s effect on cortical and sub-cortical regions involved in trauma. Using EEG measures during an EMDR session, a clear association between the disappearance of symptoms and the normalization of brain changes has been shown (in real time) to involve the limbic system (emotions center) and the hyperarousal system responsible for many clinical symptoms. Changes in these events can be monitored using the NeuroEval monitoring function employed by the NeuroCoach® Clinical system. 

The exact mechanism of EMDR therapy is still unspecified but theorized to favor memory reconsolidation. This allows new learning to occur by the discharge from the emotional load, which was causing the traumatic emotional pain. The NeuroCoach® EMDR Monitoring Module was designed to monitor and report to the clinician the various stages of the brain’s specific changes as it reprocesses the traumatic event.

With the aid of a Brain Computer Interface (BCI), NTLgroups NeuroCoach® Training System along with the Predictive Analytics Report (PAR) we can assist both the therapist and individual during sessions to understand and see how their brain is performing and functioning “in the moment”.  The PAR gives the therapist insights into where their client feels (subjectively) they are regarding cognitive brain health and what the (objective) cognitive evaluation indicates.  This tool then allows the integration and targeting of specific brain systems to be repaired and strengthened.

These gauges provide instant visual feedback and insight into how that individual’s brain is performing during each task, which in turns strengthens and increases cognitive performance.