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Cry It Out is OK, Say Researchers

So it turns out that Cry It Out is ok, after all!

I believe that no major sleep expert actually recommends “cry-it-out”. Nevertheless, the term has become attached to a method formally called “graduated extinction“. The method is made most famous by Dr. Richard Ferber in his 1986 classic “Solve Your Child’s Sleep Problems”.

Graduated extinction was criticized by proponents of “Attachment Parenting

Sleep science

Larry H. Bernstein,MD, FCAP, Curator

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  Perchance to Dream

Mapping the dreaming brain through neuroimaging and studies of brain damage

By Karen Zusi | March 1, 2016

Prefrontal leucotomies—surgeries to cut a section of white matter in the front of the brain, thus severing the frontal lobe’s connections to other brain regions—were all the rage through the 1950s as treatments for…