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When researchers tested people with insomnia, those told to picture an engaging scene fell asleep faster. A vaguer instruction to just distract yourself, the counting-sheep approach, did not.
Anxiety disorders in young people are treatable. In the largest trial, combining CBT with an SSRI worked best, and both beat placebo. Talking therapy alone also clearly outperforms no treatment.
In the largest trial, combining fluoxetine with talking therapy helped most, and both worked better than placebo. A later network analysis found only fluoxetine, alone or with therapy, clearly beat placebo.
Cochrane found cognitive behavioural therapy cuts the impact of tinnitus by about 11 points on a 100-point scale. Against active audiological care the difference was 5.65 points, below the noticeable threshold.
A meta-regression of 169 trials coded 34 therapeutic ingredients. The most common — psychoeducation, relaxation, mindfulness — were not the ones that best predicted getting better.