Cognitive behavioral treatment for narcolepsy: can it complement pharmacotherapy?
Sleep medicine in general and psychology in particular have recently developed cognitive behavioral treatment for narcolepsy (CBT-N). Despite a growing interest in this topic, most studies since 2007 have reviewed CBT applications for other sleep disorders. Currently, 6 reviews have been published on narcolepsy, with an expert consensus being reached that CBT represented an important adjunctive treatment for the disease. The current paper reviews the need for CBT applications for narcolepsy by generalizing the application of multicomponent treatments and performing studies that extrapolate the results obtained from multicenter studies. Nineteen studies were found in which the need-for-treatment guidelines identified the use of CBT for narcolepsy. Three additional studies were identified that evaluated the effectiveness of cognitive behavioral measures and multicomponent treatments for which treatment protocols have been proposed.
Behavioral Sleep Medicine Group, Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia, School of Psychology, Envigado, Colombia.
Hernán Andrés
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Marín Agudelo
Sleep Disorders Clinic, Universidad Nacional Autónoma De México, Mexico City, México.
Ulises
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Jiménez Correa
Sleep Disorders Group, Universidad de Granada, Granada, Andalucía, Spain.
Juan
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Carlos Sierra
Center for Healthful Behavior Change (CHBC), Division of Health and Behavior, Department of Population Health, New York University Medical Center, Clinical & Translational Research Institute, 227 East 30th Street (between 2nd and 3rd Avenue), Floor # 6 - 632E, New York, NY 10016, USA.
Seithikurippu R
SR
Pandi-Perumal
Minnesota Regional Sleep Disorders Center, Department of Psychiatry, and Hennepin County Medical Center, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, USA.
Carlos H
CH
Schenck
Behavior modification; Clinical formulation; Cognitive behavioral treatment; Narcolepsy; Non-pharmacological treatment