Neuroscience of Enduring Change

Neuroscience of Enduring Change is founded on the premise that all major psychotherapy modalities producing enduring change do so by virtue of corrective emotional experiences that alter problematic memories through the process of reconsolidation. This book is unique in linking basic science concepts to clinical research and clinical application. Experts in each area address each of the basic science and clinical topics. No other book addresses a general mechanism of change in psychotherapy in combination with the basic science underpinning it. This book is also unique in bringing the latest neuroimaging evidence and cutting-edge conceptual approaches to bear in understanding how psychological and behavioral treatment approaches bring about lasting change in the brain. Clinicians will benefit from the detailed discussion of basic mechanisms that underpin their clinical interventions and will be challenged to consider how their approach to therapy might be adjusted to optimize the opportunities for enduring change. Researchers will benefit from authoritative reviews of extant knowledge and a clear description of the research agenda going forward. The cross-fertilization between the research and clinical domains is evident throughout.

Richard D. Lane is a clinical psychiatrist and psychotherapist trained in cognitive neuroscience and emotion research whose research has focused on brain mechanisms of emotion and emotion regulation, emotional awareness, neurovisceral integration and the mechanisms by which emotion influences susceptibility to sudden cardiac death. His background in cognitive and affective neuroscience is now being integrated with his ongoing experience as a therapist and psychotherapy educator. Lynn Nadel is a contributor to the literature on the hippocampus and its role in spatial memory, cognition, and consolidation, in humans and other animals. An active and influential contributor to the field for about 40 years who has advanced two influential theories of hippocampal function: Cognitive Map Theory and Multiple Trace Theory.

Overview
1. Lynn Nadel and Richard D. Lane. Neuroscience of Enduring Change and Psychotherapy: An Introduction
Basic Science Perspectives
2. Lynn Nadel. What is a Memory That It Can Be Changed?
3. Ryan Smith. The Three-Process Model of Implicit and Explicit Emotion
4. Ajay B. Satpute, Erik C. Nook and Melis E. Cakar. The Role of Language in the Construction of Emotion and Memory: A Predictive Coding View
5. Jessica R. Andrews-Hanna, Kalina Christoff and Mary-Frances O'Connor. Dynamic Regulation of Internal Experience: Mechanisms of Therapeutic Change
6. Joseph E. Dunsmoor and Marijn C.W. Kroes. Emotion-memory interactions: implications for the reconsolidation of negative memories
7. Jessica D. Payne. Stress and sleep interact to selectively consolidate and transform negative emotional memories: Implications for Clinical Treatment
8. Matthew D. Grilli and Lee Ryan. Autobiographical Memory and the Self-Concept
Clinical Psychotherapy Perspectives
9. Antonio Pascual-Leone and Leslie S. Greenberg. Emotion Focused Therapy: Integrating Neuroscience and Practice
10. Jonathan D. Huppert, Isaac Fradkin and Shawn P. Cahill. CBT for anxiety disorders: Memory reconsolidation theory and its relationship to cognitive, emotional processing, and inhibitory models
11. Bruce Ecker. Erasing Problematic Emotional Learnings: Psychotherapeutic Use of Memory Reconsolidation Research
12. Hanna Levenson, Lynne Angus and Erica Pool. Viewing Psychodynamic/Interpersonal Theory and Practice through the Lens of Memory Reconsolidation
13. Rhonda Goldman and Alyssa Fredrick-Keniston. Memory Reconsolidation as a Common Change Process: Moving Toward an Integrative Model of Psychotherapy
Integrative Perspectives
14. Richard D. Lane. The Affective Origin and Treatment of Recurrent Maladaptive Patterns
15. Ryan Smith, Richard D. Lane, Lynn Nadel, and Michael Moutoussis. A computational neuroscience perspective on the change process in psychotherapy
16. Richard D. Lane, Ryan Smith and Lynn Nadel. Neuroscience of Enduring Change and Psychotherapy: Summary, Conclusions and Future Directions