Cognitive processing therapy (CPT) is an evidence-based psychotherapy for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Its goal is to help people process traumatic events while challenging and changing ...

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 ...

Like all variants of cognitive behavioral therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy for psychosis (CBTp) is a short-term, structured form of psychotherapy based on the idea that the way someone thinks ...

Research indicates that discussions, debates, and studies in the 19th and 20th centuries explored personal agency and ...

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 ...

Behavioral therapy is a broad term that refers to several therapeutic techniques to treat mental health disorders. This form of therapy suggests that all behaviors occur due to learning them from ...

The brain's ability to adapt and form new neural connections allows it to recover from injury and maintain cognitive function into old age. Neuroplasticity is the brain's ability to adapt and ...

The RESTORE trial found that cognitive functional therapy, with or without biofeedback, provided sustained improvements in pain and disability for patients with chronic low back pain.

A cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) program developed for parents whose child was born prematurely reduced harmful ...

New gene therapy offers hope for Huntington's disease, potentially increasing quality of life significantly. Trial results ...

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: ...