Insomnia Coach is a free and publicly available mobile app for people who are suffering from insomnia. It was created by a team at the National Center for PTSD, Department of Veterans Affairs. This app provides users with information to help you learn about sleep, a training plan to guide you to better sleep over the course of 5 weeks, a sleep diary to track your sleep each night, and 17 tools to help you quiet your mind, relax your body, and work on your sleep habits. This app can be used by people who are in treatment as well as those who are not. It’s recommended that before using this app you consult a health care professional. This app may not be right for you if you are a shift worker, or if your job requires you to be awake at night.
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Michelle Jonelis, MD, Redwood Pulmonary Medical Associates, Redwood City, CA, discusses the use of cognitive behavioral therapy to treat insomnia (CBT-I). CBT is the recommended treatment for ‘all-comer’ insomnia and insomnia in patients with neurological disorders. Traditional CBT is one-on-one with a psychologist. This is very labor-intensive, and there are not enough specialist psychologists to keep up with the incidence of insomnia. Recently, apps that can provide CBT-I have been developed, and research has shown that they improve insomnia symptoms in ‘all-comer’ patients and in patients with neurological disorders. Dr. Jonelis hopes there will soon be CBT-I app recommendations from the American Academy of Sleep Medicine and the Society of Behavioural Sleep Medicine. This interview took place at the American Academy of Neurology Annual Meeting 2023 in Boston, MA.
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