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...therapy has been around almost as long as the Internet. It's closely allied to cognitive behavioral therapy, which replaces months or years on the couch with focused programs to help people change unwanted feelings and reactions by challenging the beliefs that underlie them. In the 1990s, some CBT practitioners began to wonder if the structured, learning-based treatment would also work online. At first the idea was widely seen as "wacky," says Klein. "Some people said, 'How can you establish a therapeutic relationship with someone when you don't even see them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Online Helpdesk | 10/2/2008 | See Source »

...Australian National University's Centre for Mental Health Research, and by the Climate suite of programs from the Anxiety Disorders Research Unit at St. Vincent's Hospital, Sydney. The Australian Department of Health is now funding Swinburne's National e-Therapy Centre for Anxiety Disorders, which will soon offer CBT treatment via anxietyonline.org.au...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Online Helpdesk | 10/2/2008 | See Source »

...occupies. In addition to relocating the existing 213 units that will be financed by Harvard, the proposal would create additional affordable rental and home ownership units on the new site—making residents concerned about overcrowding, parking, and traffic issues. At the meeting, representatives from Community Builders and CBT Architects, the firm that designed the Charlesview proposal under discussion, said that their main focuses were alleviating the shortage of affordable housing options and addressing the need to keep buildings compact in light of rising energy costs. “Those were the things we thought were important, and that...

Author: By Nan Ni, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Charlesview Planners Defend Their Proposal | 3/11/2008 | See Source »

...same is true when cognitive techniques are used to treat depression. Scientists at the University of Toronto had 14 depressed adults undergo CBT, which teaches patients to view their own thoughts differently--to see a failed date, for instance, not as proof that "I will never be loved" but as a minor thing that didn't work out. Thirteen other patients received paroxetine (the generic form of the antidepressant Paxil). All experienced comparable improvement after treatment. Then the scientists scanned the patients' brains. "Our hypothesis was, if you do well with treatment, your brain will have changed in the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Brain: How The Brain Rewires Itself | 1/19/2007 | See Source »

...Depressed brains responded differently to the two kinds of treatment--and in a very interesting way. CBT muted overactivity in the frontal cortex, the seat of reasoning, logic and higher thought as well as of endless rumination about that disastrous date. Paroxetine, by contrast, raised activity there. On the other hand, CBT raised activity in the hippocampus of the limbic system, the brain's emotion center. Paroxetine lowered activity there. As Toronto's Helen Mayberg explains, "Cognitive therapy targets the cortex, the thinking brain, reshaping how you process information and changing your thinking pattern. It decreases rumination, and trains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Brain: How The Brain Rewires Itself | 1/19/2007 | See Source »

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