Cognitive Behavioral Therapy CBT and Insomnia

Researchers at Harvard medical School have shown CBT Cognitive Behavioral Therapy have shown greater improvements for chronic-sleep insomnia than from Ambien. This study was reported in the 9-27 archives of Internal medicine and research was funded by the National Institute of Health and the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

Sleeping pills are the most frequent treatment for insomnia, yet CBT Cognitive Behavioral Therapy techniques clearly were more successful in helping the majority of the study participants to become normal sleepers. The pills were found to be only moderately effective compared to Cognitive Behavioral therapy, CBT, and lost their effectiveness soon after they were discontinued." according to Greg jacobs, PHD, an assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard and a researcher at Harvard-affiliated Sleep Disorders Centers.