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...advantage of Ambien or Sonata (another safe, effective sleeping pill), says Jacobs, is that CBT takes a few weeks to kick in, and the drugs can help bridge that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health: In Search of Sleep | 10/11/2004 | See Source »

...insomnia expert with the Sleep Disorders Center at Boston's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. It isn't that Ambien doesn't work. But in a study published last week in the Archives of Internal Medicine, Jacobs and his colleagues show that another treatment, called cognitive behavior therapy, or CBT, works better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health: In Search of Sleep | 10/11/2004 | See Source »

...Drugs like Ambien get you to sleep," says Jacobs, "but they don't get at stress and anxiety, which are often the underlying cause of insomnia." Once you're off the drug, insomnia usually returns with a vengeance. In his placebo control study, a relatively brief course of CBT, lasting about 2 1/2 hours over six weeks, showed no such problem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health: In Search of Sleep | 10/11/2004 | See Source »

...Jacobs explains in his book Say Goodnight to Insomnia (Henry Holt), CBT teaches tricks that insomnia experts have been recommending for years: get up at the same time every morning; use your bed for sleep only, not for reading or TV (sex is O.K., thank goodness). But CBT also teaches relaxation techniques and helps patients unlearn myths about sleep that contribute to anxiety. For example, don't tense up at the thought that you won't get a full eight hours--plenty of people get by on less. If you worry that lack of sleep is bad for your health...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health: In Search of Sleep | 10/11/2004 | See Source »

...important goal is to modify CBT or develop other interventions that are briefer and less expensive,” Hyman said. “Should a situation like 9/11 repeat itself, having an effective therapy that we cannot disseminate is not useful...

Author: By Evan M. Vittor, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: U.S. Ill-Prepared for Effects of Attack | 4/23/2004 | See Source »

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