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Dr. Aric Prather
Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of California, San Francisco; director, UCSF Center for Health and Community; behavioural sleep medicine researcher and insomnia clinician
Insomnia • cognitive behavioural therapy for insomnia (CBT-I) • sleep and stress • sleep and physical health
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Focus: Behavioural treatment of insomnia (CBT-I)
Aric Prather is a professor of psychiatry at UCSF who studies how poor sleep affects physical and emotional health. He runs randomised trials of digital CBT-I, including in pregnant women, and treats insomnia clinically with CBT-I and behavioural support for CPAP users. He wrote The Sleep Prescription (2022), a seven-day insomnia programme, and is a paid sleep advisor to Headspace, which sells a CBT-I course.