by National Institutes of Health Credit: Tima Miroshnichenko from PexelsResearchers at the National Institutes of Health have found overactivation in many brain regions, including the frontal and parietal lobes and the amygdala, in unmedicated children with anxiety disorders. They also showed that treatment with cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) led to improvements in clinical symptoms and brain...
AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY People with Type 2 diabetes who were given a smartphone app that delivers personalized cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) saw significantly greater reductions in their blood sugar and less need for higher doses of diabetes medications at six months compared with those who only received standard diabetes care and a control app,...
BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE (Boston)—Black women are disproportionately affected by poor sleep, which is associated with increased risk of adverse outcomes such as cardiovascular disease, depression and worse quality of life. The gold standard treatment for insomnia is cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBT-I), which specifically targets the individual’s problematic sleep behaviors and beliefs....
by Michael Addelman, University of Manchester Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Enhanced versions of the most commonly used talking therapy for depression significantly reduces the illness beyond six months, a meta study of over 15,000 people has concluded. The assessment of data from 157 studies of cognitive behavioral therapy led by University of Manchester and University...
by Dirk Hoffman, University at Buffalo Classifiers derived from baseline fecal microbiota profiles outperformed those based on clinical/demographic and neuroimaging data to predict CBT response. A Receiver operating characteristic curves of random forest classifiers for CBT response constructed from differentially abundant microbial genera, baseline clinical/demographic data (left panel), or brain data (right panel). The 95%...
by National Institutes of Health Credit: CC0 Public Domain A single two-hour session of a pain management skills class could offer as much benefit as eight sessions of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for patients experiencing chronic low-back pain (CLBP), suggests a study published in JAMA Network Open. Supported by the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health...
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA – LOS ANGELES HEALTH SCIENCES IMAGE: JAMIE FEUSNER FINDINGS UCLA scientists and colleagues studying the effects of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) discovered an abnormality in the brains of people with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) that may help to predict who is most likely to respond to CBT. Researchers used functional MRI scans...
