Tackling fears 'while you sleep'

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Mr. Bigglesworth

Jennifer Wild, consultant clinical psychologist at the King's College London Institute of Psychiatry, said: "The sleep study is excellent and has implications for treating phobias and stress disorders, such as post-traumatic stress, where there are a whole range of cues. 
"Many people who have survived traumatic events, such as fires or road traffic accidents, have a physiological fear response to triggers of their memories.
"Triggers often include smells, such as smoke, petrol, antiseptic smells and alcohol. Infusing these smells during periods of slow-wave sleep could help to extinguish the fear response."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-24172470

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Mr. Bigglesworth

Quote from: Arctic Blast on September 23, 2013, 11:00:19 PM
So who's heading over to Martok's with a box full of tarantulas?

Smoke em if you got em. Maybe the smell of burning spider will help him sleep better. :o
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- Shakespeare's Henry V, Act III, 1598

Martok

It might.  After all, if they're burning, I'll at least know they're dead or dying...  :P 

"Like we need an excuse to drink to anything..." - Banzai_Cat
"I like to think of it not as an excuse but more like Pavlovian Response." - Sir Slash

"At our ages, they all look like jailbait." - mirth

"If we had lines here that would have crossed all of them. For the 1,077,986th time." - Gusington

"Government is so expensive that it should at least be entertaining." - airboy

"As long as there's bacon, everything will be all right." - Toonces