So there you were the other night, lying in bed trying to fall asleep. But perhaps sleep didn’t come easily to you… Maybe you woke up in the middle of the night and just couldn’t get back to sleep. How might you think (and feel) in order to facilitate sleep?
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CogSci Apps Corp. is pleased to report that the results of a recent test of the serial diverse imagining technique (used by mySleepButton) will be presented at the joint meeting of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine and the Sleep Research Society, SLEEP-2016 Conference in Denver, CO. (June 14, 2016 at 2:00 PM).
At the beginning of every year, world renowned Read & Trust blogger, Brett Terpstra, selects his top iOS and Mac apps. In reading Brett’s blog, as I regularly do, I was delighted —and honored—to find that he had selected mySleepButton as his top sleep app of 2015! He wrote I have a lot of sound
Many people are increasingly concerned about the effects on sleep of blue light emitted by smartphones and tablets, particularly since the following publication made headlines last year: Chang, A.-M., Aeschbach, D., Duffy, J. F., & Czeisler, C. A. (2015). Evening use of light-emitting eReaders negatively affects sleep, circadian timing, and next-morning alertness. Proceedings of the
Prof. Digdon and her team, of the Psychology Department of MacEwan University (Edmonton Alberta), and Dr. Beaudoin (of Cognitive Science and of Education at Simon Fraser University, and of CogSci Apps Corp.) have recently completed a study of the effectiveness of the Serial Diverse Imagining (SDI) technique used by mySleepButton. 154 participants who complained of
We are very pleased that the Canadian Sleep and Circadian Network (CSCN) garnered $4 million in funding this week! One of our research partners, Dr. Julie Carrier is president of that network, professor of Psychology at the Université of Montreal, and holds various related appointments at Hôpital du Sacré-Cœur de Montréal. Dr. Carrier, Dr. Jessica
Today (July 24, 2015) at the CogSci 2015 Conference in Pasadena, California, we will be presenting the first set of preliminary data on the technique used by mySleepButton: serial diverse imagining, which is a form of cognitive shuffle. The data are from a study led by Professor Nancy Digdon of MacEwan University (Digdon & Beaudoin,
” I am very happy with this app overall and the time it takes me to fall asleep is amazing. Rarely do I even make it to the end of 20 minutes. Well done.” Susanne Anderson, 17 June 2015
A study published June 1, 2015, on the benefits of a single-shot of CBT-I (Ellis, Cushing, Germain, 2015 has received a lot of media attention and generated considerable discussion. The controversy (including a reddit thread with over 1,000 comments, and counting) was sparked by how Northumbria University chose to describe this study. I published a
