Faculty Opinions recommendation of Treatment of chronic insomnia by restriction of time in bed.

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The results of this small study suggest that sleep restriction therapy, which limits the patient’s time in bed to the amount of time they report sleeping, serves to strengthen the homeostatic drive for sleep and consolidate sleep in a limited window of sleep opportunity. Based on daily self-report of total sleep time and efficiency of using the prescribed sleep period (averaged over one-week periods), the prescribed sleep window is increased in small increments. This approach has strong empirical support, though surprisingly few trials have investigated sleep restriction as a single therapy. This Recommendation is of an article referenced in an F1000Prime Report also written by Wilfred R. Pigeon, Todd M. Bishop and Jonathan A. Marcus.

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