--- abstract: |- Increasing scientific evidence point to a non-pharmacological complementary treatment for insomnia: white noise. Its presentation has been shown to induce sleep in human neonates and adults, probably by reducing the signal-to-noise ratio of ambient sound. White noise may be a simple, safe, cost-effective alternative to hypnotic medication in many psychiatric disorders, especially acute stress disorder and PTSD. altloc: [] chapter: ~ commentary: ~ commref: ~ confdates: ~ conference: ~ confloc: ~ contact_email: ~ creators_id: [] creators_name: - family: Lopez given: Hassen H. honourific: Dr. lineage: '' - family: Bracha given: Adam S. honourific: '' lineage: '' - family: Bracha given: Stefan honourific: Dr. lineage: '' date: 2002-09 date_type: published datestamp: 2006-08-01 department: ~ dir: disk0/00/00/50/32 edit_lock_since: ~ edit_lock_until: ~ edit_lock_user: ~ editors_id: [] editors_name: [] eprint_status: archive eprintid: 5032 fileinfo: /style/images/fileicons/application_pdf.png;/5032/1/2002_H.M.J_White%2Dnoise_for_PTSD.pdf full_text_status: public importid: ~ institution: ~ isbn: ~ ispublished: pub issn: ~ item_issues_comment: [] item_issues_count: 0 item_issues_description: [] item_issues_id: [] item_issues_reported_by: [] item_issues_resolved_by: [] item_issues_status: [] item_issues_timestamp: [] item_issues_type: [] keywords: 'PTSD, sleep, complementary medicine, insomnia' lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:56:33 latitude: ~ longitude: ~ metadata_visibility: show note: ~ number: ~ pagerange: 162-163 pubdom: TRUE publication: Hawaii Medical Journal publisher: ~ refereed: TRUE referencetext: ~ relation_type: [] relation_uri: [] reportno: ~ rev_number: 12 series: ~ source: ~ status_changed: 2007-09-12 17:06:23 subjects: - bio-behav - psy-phys succeeds: ~ suggestions: ~ sword_depositor: ~ sword_slug: ~ thesistype: ~ title: |- Evidence Based Complementary Intervention for Insomnia type: journalp userid: 6567 volume: 61