title: Evidence Based Complementary Intervention for Insomnia creator: Lopez, Dr. Hassen H. creator: Bracha, Adam S. creator: Bracha, Dr. Stefan subject: Behavioral Biology subject: Psychophysics description: Increasing scientific evidence point to a non-pharmacological complementary treatment for insomnia: white noise. Its presentation has been shown to induce sleep in human neonates and adults, probably by reducing the signal-to-noise ratio of ambient sound. White noise may be a simple, safe, cost-effective alternative to hypnotic medication in many psychiatric disorders, especially acute stress disorder and PTSD. date: 2002-09 type: Journal (Paginated) type: PeerReviewed format: application/pdf identifier: http://cogprints.org/5032/1/2002_H.M.J_White-noise_for_PTSD.pdf identifier: Lopez, Dr. Hassen H. and Bracha, Adam S. and Bracha, Dr. Stefan (2002) Evidence Based Complementary Intervention for Insomnia. [Journal (Paginated)] relation: http://cogprints.org/5032/