Insomnia Cures That Really Will Give You a Good Night's Sleep ; We All Dream of It. Now Top Scientists Reveal the Treatments That Do Work

Daily Mail › December 30, 2008

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MILLIONS of Britons are missing out on a good night's sleep as a result of insomnia -- an estimated one-third of all adults suffer from it at some point in their lives.

Desperate for rest, they face a bewildering choice of treatments, from talking therapies, to pills and herbs.

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Insomnia Cures That Really Will Give You a Good Night's Sleep ; We All Dream of It. Now Top Scientists Reveal the Treatments That Do Work

But what really works -- or are sleeping pills the only solution? Researchers at the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) believe they now have the answer. They have reviewed all the studies on the more popular treatments to see which ones do actually work, which might work, and which are a waste of time and money.

Here are some of their key findings. .

COGNITIVE BEHAVIOURAL THERAPY (CBT) THE THEORY: Also known as talking therapy, CBT is based on trying to change the actions o...

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