This project evaluates the preliminary effects of four weeks of frontal cerebral thermal therapy (forehead cooling) on insomnia in adults aged 18 to 50 years with Tourette's disorder and co-occurring insomnia disorder. Procedures involve measurement of objective sleep patterns, subjective depression, anxiety, and daytime sleepiness, and interview ratings of tic severity. Findings have implications for utility of a non-medication intervention tailored to underlying neurobiology of insomnia to treat hyperarousal in TD.

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