Background: Relaxation training is a common treatment for anxiety problems. Lacking is a recent quantitative meta-analysis that enhances understanding of the variability and clinical significance of ...

Anxiety feels like an overwhelming loop of persistent worry and physical distress. It can disrupt your everyday life.

Applied relaxation is a general term for mind-body exercises used to diminish generalized anxiety. Relaxation techniques include sustained deep breathing, progressive muscle relaxation, guided imagery ...

Cognitive rehabilitation therapy (CRT) refers to a group of therapies that aim to restore cognitive function after a brain injury. CRT is not a specific type of treatment. Rather, it refers to a group ...

Many medical problems, such as traumatic brain injuries, stroke, dementia, and even cancer, can affect the brain and make it difficult for someone to think or process information. Cognitive ...

Cognitive rehabilitation is an umbrella term for a group of targeted exercises and activities that aim to improve or stabilize cognitive impairments as well as any changes in a person’s everyday ...

Cognitive impairment is a common but often overlooked symptom of schizophrenia. From difficulties in social settings to remembering how to take the bus to work, decreased cognitive function can ...

Sleep specialist S. Justin Thomas, Ph.D., has grown accustomed to people looking at him as though he is an eight-headed monster. That’s his way of referring to the reaction he gets from patients when ...

University of Alabama at Birmingham sleep specialist Justin Thomas, Ph.D., says he often gets odd reactions from patients when he tells them about one of the most effective ways to overcome insomnia: ...