Cooling the Brain to Treat Insomnia

A study presented last week at SLEEP 2009 proposed that “cooling the brain” may be a new way to treat insomnia.The study states that insomnia is associated with increased metabolism in the brain’s frontal cortex. This occurs during the stage of non-REM sleep. Cooling the brain – “cerebral hypothermia” – has reduced metabolic activity in other medical conditions. Can it work for insomnia?The