A Pilot Study of Positive Expectations and Focused Attention via a New Protocol for Optimizing Therapeutic Hypnosis and Psychotherapy Assessed with DNA Microarrays: The Creative Psychosocial Genomic Healing Experience

Authors and Affiliations: This preliminary research report is co-sponsored by the non-profit Ernest Lawrence Rossi Foundation for Psychosocial Genomics in the United States of America and La Nuova Scuola Di Neuroscienze Ipnosi Therapeutica (The New Neuroscience School of Therapeutic Hypnosis), The University of Salerno Department of Chemistry and Department of Education Sciences, The Istituto Mente-Corpo (The Mind-Body Institute), in San Lorenzo Maggiore, Italy where Salvatore Iannotti, MD, is the Medical Director; Ernest Rossi, PhD, U.S.A., is a Professor of Neuroscience; Kathryn Rossi, PhD, U.S.A is Professor of Psychology and Psychotherapy. Mauro Cozzolino, PhD, is Professor of General Psychology at the University of Salerno where he is a researcher & teacher of Psychological Research Methodology; he is a member of the European Science Foundation Management Committee (ESF/COST). Stefano Castiglione, PhD, is associate Professor of Botany at the Chemistry Department of University of Salerno. He is the person in charge of the molecular laboratory where the DNA microarray research was conducted. Angela Cicatelli is PhD student in Applied Biology at the University of Naples Federico II. She is the person in charge for Nucleic Acid manipulation useful for microarray analysis.