Want to geek-out?

 

 

You're in the right place. Hey, it's not everyone's cup of tea, but for those who love to pore through academic papers I've included links to some of the neuroscience and psychology research behind Sequential Psychotherapy's core components:

 

 

• Cognitive Restructuring

• Memory Reconsolidation

• Autonomic Down-Regulation

• Neuroplasticity

• Bottom-Up / Top Down Control

Functional overlap of top-down emotion regulation and generation: An fMRI study identifying common neural substrates between cognitive reappraisal and cognitively generated emotions

 

Cognitive neuroscience of self-regulation failure

 

Bottom-up and top-down emotion generation: implications for emotion regulation

 

Bottom-Up and Top-Down Processes in Emotion Generation

 

Mechanisms governing the reactivation-dependent destabilization of memories and their role in extinction

 

Prediction error demarcates the transition from retrieval, to reconsolidation, to new learning

 

Minding the findings: Let's not miss the message of memory reconsolidation research for psychotherapy

 

Memory reconsolidation, emotional arousal, and the process of change in psychotherapy: New insights from brain science

 

Attachment and the regulation of the right brain

 

Harnessing neuroplasticity for clinical applications

 

Psychosomatics and psychopathology: looking up and down from the brain

 

The polyvagal theory: New insights into adaptive reactions of the autonomic nervous system

 

Desire for control, locus of control, and proneness to depression

 

Neocortical Modulation of the Amygdala Response to Fearful Stimuli

 

Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy and Neuroscience: Towards Closer Integration

 

Failure to Escape Traumatic Shock

 

Mind does really matter: Evidence from neuroimaging studies of emotional self-regulation, psychotherapy, and placebo effect

 

Stress signalling pathways that impair prefrontal cortex structure and function

 

Physical Health, Self-Reliance, and Emotional Control as Moderators of the Relationship between Locus of Control and Mental Health among Men Treated for Prostate Cancer

 

Self-esteem, locus of control, hippocampal volume, and cortisol regulation in young and old adulthood

 

Stress and selective attention: The interplay of mood, cortisol levels, and emotional information processing

 

The Role of Perfectionism in Daily Self-Esteem, Attachment, and Negative Affect

 

Theoretical Perspectives on the Relation Between Catastrophizing and Pain

 

Who succeeds in maintaining weight loss? A conceptual review of factors associated with weight loss maintenance and weight regain

 

Panic and the Brainstem: Clues from Neuroimaging Studies

 

Comparison of the effectiveness of cognitive restructuring and systematic desensitization in reducing high-stakes test anxiety

 

Evaluation of cognitive restructuring for post-traumatic stress disorder in people with severe mental illness

 

Post-traumatic stress disorder: the neurobiological impact of psychological trauma

 

The role of psychological interventions in the management of patients with chronic pain

 

The effects of cognitive appraisal of stress on heart rate and task performance

 

Psychological stress, appraisal, emotional , and cardiovascular response in a public speaking task

 

Differential contribution of right and left amygdala to affective information processing

 

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