Fear and Healing
The amygdala plays a crucial role in the fear response and anxiety, but recent clinical tools using eye movements have shown promise in alleviating the emotional weight of traumatic experiences. While EMDR is most effective for specific, singular traumas, it parallels the natural processing that occurs during REM sleep. Additionally, new treatments like Ketamine are emerging, offering further insights into how we can manage and heal from trauma.In this clip
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Understanding and Using Dreams to Learn and to Forget | Huberman Lab Podcast #5
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In the episode Understanding and Using Dreams to Learn and to Forget | Huberman Lab Podcast #5 and the clip Fear and Healing from the episode Erasing Fears & Traumas Based on the Modern Neuroscience of Fear | Huberman Lab Podcast #49 and the clip EMDR Insights, Andrew discusses a process to erase fear and traumas by first extinguishing the fear or trauma through retelling the narrative. The goal is to diminish the physiological response, right? If a person works to change their physiological response immediately after being triggered, would that over time also diminish the physiological response and therefore break the conditioning? For example, if a person had a traumatic experience with a spider and uses breathwork to calm the body immediately after being triggered, would that work like retelling a narrative to extinguish the fear? Did I miss something?
How does Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) work for trauma in the context of the episode Erasing Fears & Traumas Based on the Modern Neuroscience of Fear | Huberman Lab Podcast #49 and the clip EMDR Insights?
How does Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) work for trauma in the context of the episode Erasing Fears & Traumas Based on the Modern Neuroscience of Fear | Huberman Lab Podcast #49 and the clip EMDR Insights from the Huberman Lab Podcast?