Definition
CBT-I
Cognitive behavioural therapy for insomnia. The first-line non-drug treatment, and one of the intervention categories Sleep.ai has studied.
From the episode “Chronic Insomnia: Almost None Get Treated — Colin Lawlor on the Sleep Data Gap”Hear it on the podcast1 episode
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