Sixty seconds on . . . bad dreams

Is this a Halloween thing?No, although it does involve nightmares.You mean like getting a new prime minister every few weeks?If only that were in the mind. More positive news awaits those with real nightmares. Researchers in Switzerland may have found a way to boost the effectiveness of a treatment for nightmares called imagery rehearsal therapy (IRT), where patients are asked to change the negative storyline of their bad dream to a more positive one. The technique doesn’t work for about 30% of patients, said the researchers in Current Biology,1 so they tried adding some piano tunes.Lie on my couch and tell me everythingIn the study all 36 people with recurring bad dreams were asked to perform an initial IRT session in which they generated a positive outcome of their nightmare. Half of them were also exposed to a sound at the same time (the targeted memory reactivation (TMR) group), while…
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