Brain training (cognitive behavioural therapy) seen as most cost-effective treatment for chronic fatigue syndrome

By SharpBrains | August 7, 2012 |

Pac­ing ‘not cost-effec­­tive’ for CFS (NHS Choic­es): “Brain train­ing is most cost-effec­­tive treat­ment for chron­ic fatigue syn­drome,” BBC News reports, while pac­ing ther­a­pies (learn­ing to live with­in lim­its) “offer lit­tle val­ue”. “This news is based on research that aimed to deter­mine how cost-effec­­tive four treat­ment options were for peo­ple with CFS. These were:

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Does cognitive therapy work; should the NHS provide more of it for depression?

By Alvaro Fernandez | March 24, 2010 |

Excel­lent arti­cle in the UK’s news­pa­per The Inde­pen­dent on the grow­ing adop­tion of cog­ni­­tive-behav­iour­al ther­a­py (CBT) by the Nation­al Health Ser­vice (NHS). Very rel­e­vant to the US too, giv­en that a grow­ing num­ber of insur­ers are offer­ing com­put­er­ized CBT. Quotes: “Why are we ask­ing this now? There is grow­ing frus­tra­tion among GPs at the dif­fi­cul­ty they…

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