Very highly hypnotizable subjects are rare, easily induced, and able to manifest the whole spectrum of hypnotic phenomena, including post-hypnotic amnesia. The aim of this study was to detect and localize by means of quantitative functional MRI and EEG changes in cortical activity during hypnosis induction and deep "pure hypnosis" in a hypnotic "virtuoso" subject. We focused on areas forming th...

W H , IEN GIVEN THE SUGGESTION that he is 5 months old, the hypnotized person at times indulges in infantile acts such as thumbsucking, babbling, crawling, bed-wetting, and feeding from a bottle. Pertinent to on-going research in the behavioral and physiological sciences are reports indicating that during such "hypnotic age regression" subjects manifest (1) some infantile reflex responses and (...

Whereas early studies have found moderately high agreement between self- and observer-rated scores on the Harvard Group Scale of Hypnotic Susceptibility, Form A (HGSHS:A), these studies shared a common confound in that participants were aware of being directly observed. In the present study, confederates made surreptitious observations of group participants' hypnotic responding. Following the h...

A problem of overprescribing of hypnotic medication ('sleeping tablets') was identified and quantified within a department of health care for older people in a district general hospital. Data on the volume of prescribing were obtained from computerized pharmacy records, and this information was supplemented by a retrospective survey of case notes of 100 patients. Sixty per cent of patients were...

This study determined if any acupuncture point (acupoint) known for its calming effects also aided hypnotic induction. Hypnosis was offered to 108 patients requiring minor surgical or dental procedures. All had a history of panic attacks and surgical or dental phobias that complicated or prevented treatment. Unpleasant intruding thoughts of imminent invasive treatments handicapped their ability...

Reprint from American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, VIII(3), 189-191. This study is a continuation and extension of an earlier report (1) which examined hypnotic susceptibility in the framework of role theory (2). Three of six variables which contribute to the effectiveness of enacting a role (hypnotic responsiveness in this case) were tested two of them significantly affected the degree of hyp...

A series of 4 – aryl substituted semicarbazones of some terpenes ie , citral ( acyclic terpene ) , camphor ( bicyclic terpene ) and menthone ( monocyclic terpene ) were synthesized from substituted anilines , to meet the structural requirements essential for anticonvulsant activity . The structures of the synthesized terpene semicarbazones were confirmed by I.R. , H-NMR and elemental analysis. ...

Abstract Can the brain be shifted into a different state using simple social cue, as tests on highly hypnotizable subjects would suggest? Demonstrating an altered global is difficult. Brain activation varies greatly during wakefulness and can voluntarily influenced. We measured complexity of electrophysiological response to transcranial magnetic stimulation in one ‘hypnotic virtuoso’. Such meas...

A number of brain regions are associated with the subjective experience of pain. This study adds to our understanding of the neural mechanisms involved in pain by considering the relation between cortical oscillations in response to pain, with and without hypnosis and hypnotic analgesia, and the subjective experience of pain. Thirty-three subjects' neural responses (EEG) were measured during th...

I t has long been established that hypnotized subjects sometimes act in accordance with suggestions that they will not be able to remember specific information or events until given a retrieval cue (1-4). Subjects who exhibit this behavior, known as suggested hypnotic amnesia, when tested for recall, report none or only a portion of the specific information targeted by the amnesia suggestion. A...