Attention is one of the key factors in both hypnotic processes and patients with ADHD. In addition, the brain areas associated with hypnosis and ADHD overlap in many respects. However, the use of hypnosis in ADHD patients has still received only minor attention in research. The main purpose of the present work was to investigate whether hypnosis and hypnotic suggestions influence the performanc...

This study explored whether the Waterloo-Stanford Group Scale of Hypnotic Susceptibility Form: C (WSGC) approximates the predictive power of the individually administered Stanford Hypnotic Susceptibility Scale: Form C (SHSS: C). Seventy-one undergraduates were administered the WSGC in a group setting and then tested individually on the SHSS: C. The participants were then hypnotized and tested o...

BACKGROUND The neural mechanisms underlying the modulation of pain perception by hypnosis remain obscure. In this study, we used positron emission tomography in 11 healthy volunteers to identify the brain areas in which hypnosis modulates cerebral responses to a noxious stimulus. METHODS The protocol used a factorial design with two factors: state (hypnotic state, resting state, mental imager...

Eisen, M.L., Oustinovskaya, M., Kistorian, R., Morgan, D.Y., & Mickes, L. (2008). The effect of question format on resistance to misleading postevent information and self-reports of events occurring during hypnosis. International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 56(2):198-213. The authors present this article about how hypnosis affects memory recall and memory reporting. The autho...

conclusions a review of the literature on the use of hypnotic drugs in patients with liver dysfunction showed that some hypnotic drugs used during anesthesia could be safely used in patients with impaired liver function. in these patients, certain drugs should be used with caution. results anesthesia should be performed with caution in patients with hepatic dysfunction and drugs with long half-...

While several theories assume that responses to hypnotic suggestions can be implemented without executive intentions, the metacognitive class of postulate behaviors produced by are intended and accompanying feeling involuntariness is only a consequence strategically not being aware intention. Cold control theory asserts difference between non-hypnotic response this one, is, whether or one one's...

OBJECTIVE The present study was designed to test the hypotheses that response expectancies and emotional distress mediate the effects of an empirically validated presurgical hypnosis intervention on postsurgical side effects (i.e., pain, nausea, and fatigue). METHOD Women (n = 200) undergoing breast-conserving surgery (mean age = 48.50 years; 63% White, 15% Hispanic, 13% African American, and...

OBJECTIVE To compare how newly initiated treatment with benzodiazepines, Z-hypnotics or both associates with the reception of disability pension among 40,661 individuals of a working age. DESIGN Prescription register study. SETTING Norwegian nationwide prescriptions socio-economic and disability status data. METHODS Cox regression analyses. SUBJECTS New benzodiazepine or Z-hypnotic user...

Determination of hypnotizability is important, before prescribing any hypnotic treatment. Existing methods for measuring the level of hypnotic susceptibility are subjective, with some problems. In this study, a feature based on EEG weighted regional frequency was introduced, which can characterize the level of the subject's hypnotizability objectively. The ability of this feature for making a s...

Hypnotic focused analgesia, comparable to chemical local anesthesia, has been widely documented in our Laboratory after hypnotic suggestions. This study is aimed at producing hypnotic local anesthesia suggesting that a hand does not belong to the body (body dysmorphism) without any direct suggestions of analgesia. Eight healthy, highly hypnotizable volunteers underwent a cold pressor test keepi...