Author(s)

Pierre-Alain Grounauer¹, Bastien Métraux²

¹University Eye Clinic, Lausanne, Switzerland.
²Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV), Lausanne, Switzerland.

The use of a red light observed through closed eyes is a new CBT Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to fight insomnia. Its principles are based on the high transmission of the colour red through eyelids, the great sensitivity to light of the retina when it is adjusted to darkness and the mental distraction obtained by the perception and attentive observation of variations of intensity. The prefrontal and occipital fNIRS recordings document this method which is correlated to the sleep EEG state II.

Insomnia, CBT, Prefrontal-Occipital fNIRS, Sleep EEG State II, Mindfulness Meditations

Grounauer, P. and Métraux, B. (2014) The Somnogen Visual Training a New CBT to Fight Insomnia through Closed Eyes and fNIRS Neuroimaging. Journal of Behavioral and Brain Science, 4, 477-481. doi: 10.4236/jbbs.2014.410047.