The purpose of the present research was to test the effect of EMDR on anxiety control in athletes. Participants were 8 college athletes. The researcher finally selected 8 research participants through pre-interviews and pre-tests.

The purpose of the study is that the difference of the activation of the prefrontal cortex is made clear in order to know the ability for EMDR to influence the anxiety control. To achieve it, eight college athletes participated in the study. Obelab fNIRS, instrument, and Matlab, software, were used for the experiment. The study was measured in chronological order, which means that base line, pre-imagery, bilaterality eye movement program, post-imagery, one after another, are progressed. The results of each task are as follows.

First, the result of using imagery to cause anxiety was that the overall activation of the prefrontal cortex is decreased.

Second, adjusting the eye movement program cause the activation of the right prefrontal cortex to be decreased in pre-imagery and post-imagery.

Finally, when each time of the bilaterality eye movement is measured, we can identify the result that the right prefrontal cortex is activated.

This result shows that EDMR can quickly reprocess into the positive metal status the negative one caused by the negative memory about anxiety. This study shows the possibility that EDMR can be used when adjusting the unexpected anxiety which happens during the specific situation, sports.