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Study after study demonstrates the role of the amygdala in the perception of many types of chronic pain. A 2012 meta-analysis in the journal “Human Brain Mapping”(1) pointed to a universal acceptance of the role of the amygdala, but also to marked differences between brain imaging relating to acute and chronic pain.

​In the late 1990s/early 2000s, Sutherland ran four pilot studies utilising precursors to SDR Therapy for a wide range of amygdala-mediated disorders: chronic pain (two studies), clinical depression in the moderate-to-severe range, and academic and behavioural performance of children deemed “at risk”.