Cognitive behavioral treatment for narcolepsy: can it complement pharmacotherapy?
Sleep Sci
; 7(1): 30-42, 2014 Mar.
Article
in En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-26483898
Sleep medicine in general and psychology in particular have recently developed cognitive behavioral treatment for narcolepsy (CBT-N). Despite a growing interest in this topic, most studies since 2007 have reviewed CBT applications for other sleep disorders. Currently, 6 reviews have been published on narcolepsy, with an expert consensus being reached that CBT represented an important adjunctive treatment for the disease. The current paper reviews the need for CBT applications for narcolepsy by generalizing the application of multicomponent treatments and performing studies that extrapolate the results obtained from multicenter studies. Nineteen studies were found in which the need-for-treatment guidelines identified the use of CBT for narcolepsy. Three additional studies were identified that evaluated the effectiveness of cognitive behavioral measures and multicomponent treatments for which treatment protocols have been proposed.
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Type of study:
Clinical_trials
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Guideline
Language:
En
Journal:
Sleep Sci
Year:
2014
Document type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Colombia
Country of publication:
Germany