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KPBS San Diego: Dr. Barry Krakow Discusses Nightmares
by Angela Carone, Maureen Cavanaugh of KPBS
When Do Nightmares Become A Sleep Disorder?
One in 20 adults in the US complain of disturbing dreams, and more than twice that many children and adolescents also experience frequent nightmares, yet few chronic nightmare sufferers imagine that it is a treatable problem. We’ll talk about nightmares with leading sleep [...]
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Maimonides International Nightmare Treatment
Video Blog: Dr. Barry Krakow discusses how patients with nightmares typically have additional sleep disorders and rarely complain about only nightmares themselves.
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Nightmare Treatment Tipping Point
Video Blog: We’re seeing a lot more activity at NightmareTreatment.com – We seeing more activity with the nightmare quiz and book sales: Turning Nightmares into Dreams. Dr. Barry Krakow discusses the “tipping point” of nightmare treatment and IRT, Image Rehearsal Therapy.
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In the Mind’s Eye of the Beholder
by Barry Krakow, MD | Clinical Psychiatry News | Download PDF
Imagery rehearsal therapy is a broad term for myriad cognitive-imagery treatments for chronic and potentially acute nightmare disorders. Several groups are researching specific brands of the therapy, and this modality is receiving substantial attention in two converging ways.
First, several review articles have argued that imagery [...]
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New Research on Suicide Risk in the Military: Where’s the Sleep Angle?
We were surprised to see that this RFA makes no mention of nightmares or insomnia, both of which are known risk factors for suicide, and both of which are in the category of modifiable risk factors.
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Weak Reporting on PTSD Treatments
The Washington Post has written a couple articles here and here on the poor state of mental health services in the VAMC across the USA. The sad thing about the articles is how they little they focus on the evidence-based treatments that need to be integrated into these mental health programs. Plenty of [...]
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The Aftermath of the Virginia Tech Massacre: Asking the Right Questions
One month after the murderous rampage at Virginia Tech, should we expect a similar media frenzy to latch onto the community�s efforts at recovery? Obviously and regrettably not, as few journalists or media organizations know how or what to effectively broach when exploring the topic of recovery. Articles will appear here and there about [...]
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Imagery Rehearsal Therapy for Acute Nightmares
A short research letter appears in the American Journal of Psychiatry showing that a small number of combat soldiers in Iraq responded to a brief treatment for new onset nightmares.
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