Posted by Sigismund on December 16, 2008, at 15:21:53
In reply to Insomnia sleep-tracks review, posted by mt55 on December 16, 2008, at 13:15:48
This is probably it...
>FAST
A behavioral sleep therapy has been developed by psychologists at Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia. They have branded it Flinders Accelerated Sleep Therapy (FAST), but it might also be called Extreme Sleep Restriction. At 8 on a Saturday night, patients come to a sleep laboratory, where they go to bed wired to an EEG machine that tracks their brain waves. For 27 hours, until 11 p.m. Sunday, they are awakened every time the EEG reading indicates that theyre falling asleep sometimes 50 times or more. In a preliminary study of patients with severe chronic insomnia, just one round of FAST reduced sleep latency (the time it took to fall asleep) by nearly 50%, from an hour and 10 minutes to 40 minutes, and increased total sleep time from five to six hours when measured six weeks later. The therapy is still experimental, and there are no controlled studies.
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