Rest easy.Late-life insomnia can be treated COGNITIVE-BEHAVIORAL THERAPY Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Definition Cognitive-behavioral therapy is an action-oriented form of psychosocial therapy that assumes that maladaptive, or faulty, thinking patterns cause maladaptive behavior and "negative" emotions. IS THE most effective strategy for long term treatment of insomnia in older adults, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a new study published in the March 17 Journal of the American Medical Association JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association is an international peer-reviewed general medical journal, published 48 times per year by the American Medical Association. JAMA is the most widely circulated medical journal in the world. . Researchers assigned 78 adults aged 55 or older either a placebo or one of three different treatments for their insomnia: cognitive-behavior therapy Cognitive-behavior therapy A form of psychotherapy that seeks to modify behavior by manipulating the environment to change the patient's response. Mentioned in: Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder , which included group therapy and following guidelines such as using the bed only for sleep or sex; drug therapy where subjects were prescribed Restoril (temazepam temazepam /te·maz·e·pam/ (te-maz´e-pam) a benzodiazepine used as a sedative and hypnotic in the treatment of insomnia. te·maz·e·pam n. ) to be taken an hour before bedtime; or a combination of both. Each of the therapies was helpful, but the dual approach of cognitive-behavioral and drug therapies was initially shown to be most effective. Over follow-up sessions, however, only those who had used just the cognitive-behavioral approach showed lasting improvements. That could spell good news for people in long term care, many of whom can't take sleep medications. |
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