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Patients With Treatment-Resistant Insomnia Taking Nightly Prescription Medications for Sleep: A Retrospective Assessment of Diagnostic and Treatment Variables
The Primary Care Companion to the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry Barry Krakow, MD; Victor A. Ulibarri, BS; and Edward A. Romero, BS Background: Some chronic insomnia patients who take nightly prescription medication...
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Guiding Your Sleep While You’re Awake - NYTimes.com Monday, 26 July 2010
Dr. Barry Krakow of the Maimonides Sleep Arts and Sciences center in Albuquerque and the author of “Sound Sleep,...
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Patients With Treatment-Resistant Insomnia Taking Nightly Prescription Medications for Sleep: A Retrospective Assessment of Diagnostic and Treatment Variables

The Primary Care Companion to the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry Barry Krakow, MD; Victor A. Ulibarri, BS; and Edward A. Romero, BS Background: Some chronic insomnia patients who take nightly prescription medication achieve less than optimal results. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) recommend reevaluation of this type of patient to assess for potential psychiatric or medical causes to explain this “failure for insomnia to remit.”
Last Updated on Friday, 20 August 2010 15:55
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New York Times

Guiding Your Sleep While You’re Awake - NYTimes.com

Monday, 26 July 2010

Dr. Barry Krakow of the Maimonides Sleep Arts and Sciences center in Albuquerque and the author of “Sound Sleep, Sound Mind,” helped develop imagery rehearsal therapy. In a 110-page manual he gives his patients, he has them select a nightmare they want to transform into a dream of lesser intensity.

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Following a Script to Escape a Nightmare - NYTimes.com

Monday, 26 July 2010

ALBUQUERQUE — Her car is racing at a terrifying speed through the streets of a large city, and something gruesome, something with giant eyeballs, is chasing her, closing in fast. It was a dream, of course, and after Emily Gurule, a 50-year-old high school teacher, related it to Dr. Barry Krakow, he did not ask her to unpack its symbolism. He simply told her to think of a new one. “In your mind, with thinking and picturing, take a few minutes, close your eyes, and I want you to change the dream any way you wish,” said Dr. Krakow, founder of the P.T.S.D. Sleep Clinic at the Maimonides Sleep Arts and Sciences center here and a leading researcher of nightmares.

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