This study investigated the effectiveness of a psychotherapeutic treatment for nightmares that was adapted for 6- to 11-year-old children from imagery rehearsal therapy. Ten child-mother dyads took part in a 3-session, 8-week treatment protocol. Participation in the study (contact with clinician, keeping a prospective dream log) was associated with decreases unpleasant dreams frequency, nightma...

McMaster University; Hamilton, Canada; Hamilton Regional Laboratory Medicine Program; Hamilton, Canada; Universitaetsklinikum; Freiburg, Germany; National Center for Rare Diseases; Istituto Superiore di Sanit a; Rome, Italy; National Research Council; Institute for Research on Population and Social Policies; Rome, Italy; National Research Council; Institute of Clinical Physiology; Lecce, Italy;...

Clinical experience with fetal hemoglobin induction therapy in patients with b-thalassemia Khaled M. Musallam, Ali T. Taher, Maria Domenica Cappellini, and Vijay G. Sankaran Department of Medicine and Medical Specialties, Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda, Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, University of Milan, Milan, Italy; Department of Internal Medicine, American University of Beirut Medical Center, B...

Methodological issues in modelling time-of-travel preferences Moshe Ben-Akiva & Maya Abou-Zeid a Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA b Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, American University of Beirut, P.O. Box 11 – 0236, FEA-CEE, Room 2M3, Riad El-Solh, Beirut 1107 2020, Leban...

a Department of Gynecology, Martin-Luther-University, Halle/Saale, Germany; b Division of Hematology-Oncology, Department of Internal Medicine, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon; c Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Australia; d Department of Oncology and Radiotherapy, Medical University of Gda ’ nsk; Gdansk, Poland; e Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, Univers...

N IELSEN AND ZADRA 1 REcently estimated that “4 to 8% of the general population have a ‘current problem’ with nightmares.” Frequent nightmares are also reported in depression, schizophrenia-spectrum disorders, and in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) where a prevalence of 60% has been documented. Paradoxically, The InternationalClassificationofSleepDisorders lists a prevalence of “perhaps 1%...

Lebanon's higher education is the oldest in the region. It goes back to 1866 when the American University of Beirut (AUB) was founded under the name of the Syrian Evangelical College, followed by the University of Saint Joseph (USJ) in 1875, then by the Lebanese American University (LAU) in 1947 as a Beirut College for Women. The Lebanese University (LU) which is the only public university in t...

Interest in the treatment of nightmares has greatly increased over the last several years as research has demonstrated the clinical significance of nightmare disorder. This paper provides an overview of nightmare disorder, its clinical relevance, and the leading treatments that are available. In particular, the paper defines nightmare disorder and then summarize the recent literature examining ...