Neurophysiology of hypnosis.

Heterogeneity in high hypnotic suggestibility and the neurophysiology of hypnosis.

Heterogeneity in high hypnotic suggestibility and the neurophysiology of hypnosis Hétérogénéité de la haute suggestibilité hypnotique et neurophysiologie de l’hypnose

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Salient findings: A potentially groundbreaking study on the neuroscience of hypnotizability, a critical review of hypnosis' efficacy, and the neurophysiology of conversion disorder.

Three papers of special interest to researchers and clinicians alike have recently appeared in the general scientific and medical literatures. Two of these papers are original research studies that employ brain-imaging technologies, one using Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), the other position emission tomography (PET). A third paper is a comprehensive review of the empirical findings on the c...

Time to Explain the Nature of Hypnosis?

Time distortion is a well known phenomenon of hypnosis. Perhaps less well known are the distortions to temporal judgement that are exhibited by patients with Parkinson’s disease or schizophrenia. Both these classes of patient also suffer from hallucinations, which of course can be induced in hypnosis. It is argued that these are not chance parallels; they can all be accommodated by Gray’s (1995...

Cognitive Effects on the Neurophysiology and Biomechanics of Stroke Recovery

Motor function recovery after stroke typically plateaus after six months. Case reports suggest that hypnosis has the potential to stimulate further recovery of function beyond this period. A pilot clinical investigation of hypnosis-aided recovery of motor function after stroke is presented. Baseline hand motor performance was quantified for six stroke subjects with a force-following task. Brain...