Selected Press

BBC Documentary – Uncanny. August 2023. Details.

Daily Mail – Seeing’ a ghost is a wake-up call you can mute. June 2023. Details.

BBC – Why some people wake up unable to move. April 2023. Details.

Vox – Sleep and the supernatural. August 2022. Details

Der Spiegel – Die Dämonen der Dunkelheit. July 2021. Details.

TRT World – A Brain Glitch or an Evil Spirit? October, 2020. Details.

The Times of India – Meditation-Relaxation Therapy Likely to Offer Escape from Sleep Paralysis Terror: Study, August, 2020. Details.

University of Cambridge Research News – Meditation-Relaxation Therapy may Offer Escape from the Terror of Sleep Paralysis, August, 2020. Details.

BBC – OCD: Rubber Hand Party Trick Could Help Sufferers, New Study Ways. January, 2020. Details.

The New York Times – Feces-Smeared Fakes: Scientists Use Rubber Hands in OCD Therapy, January 2020. Details.

New Scientist – Illusion Involving Fake Poo and Rubber Hand Tested on People with OCD, January 2020. Details.

University of Cambridge Research News – Contaminating a Fake Rubber Hand Could Help People Overcome OCD, Study Suggests. January 2020. Details.

Reuters – Feces-Smeared Fakes: Scientists Use Rubber Hands in OCD Therapy, January 2020 Details

NBC News – What Your Jealous Feelings Are Telling You (and What You Should Do About Them), May 2019. Details.

The Times – Videos on App Help Patients Resist Obsessive Compulsions, November 2018. Details.

BBC two (Victoria Derbyshire Live) – Smartphone App for OCD, October 2018. Details.

ABC News. Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Handwashing App Could Help Treat Those with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. October, 2018. Details.

The Week – Who is the Hat Man? The Nightmare Shared by Dreamers Across the World, October 2018. Details.

The Telegraph – Are You Suffering from Sleep Paralysis? October 2018. Details.

Chicago Tribune – New Hope for Those with OCD Who Scrub Their Hands until They Bleed, October 2018. Details.

The Washington Post – Obsessive-Compulsive disorder: The Simple Videos that Researchers Hope Will Help People who Scrub Their Hands Until They Bleed, October 2018. Details.

University of Cambridge Research News – Brain Training App Helps Reduce OCD Symptoms Study Finds – Researcher Profile: Baland Jalal, October 2018. Details.

PBS (NOVA) – The Nightmare of Sleep Paralysis, August 2018. Details.

New Scientist – Watching Others Wash Their Hands May Relief OCD Symptoms, August 2017. Details

The Pulse (NPR) – Sleep Paralysis: How a Deep-Sleep Glitch Can Conjure the Boogeyman, July 2017. Details.

Vice – Sleep paralysis is a literal nightmare. February 2017. Details.

New York Magazine – A Neuroscientist Tried to Help Me Overcome My Sleep Paralysis, July 2016.  Details.

Business Insider – A Researcher May Have Found a Way to Treat Sleep Paralysis, The Terrifying Experience of Waking Up Unable to Move, January 2016.  Details.

Today – See Ghosts in Your Sleep? Or Jerk Awake and Can’t Move? Here’s Why it Happens? October 2025. Details.

Discover Magazine – To Study OCD Scientists get Their (Rubber) Hands Dirty, December 2015.  Details. 

The Guardian – Vampires, Ghosts and Demons: The Nightmare of Sleep Paralysis, October 2015. Details.

Daily Mail – What REALLY happens when you see a ghost: Bizarre brain activity behind ‘sleep paralysis’ is finally revealed. January 2015. Details.

Fox News – Ever Wake Up and Think You See a Ghost? Here’s What’s Happening. January 2015. Details.