The purposes of this systematic/critical review are: 1) to identify studies on the effects of exercise on chronic insomnia and sleep complaints in middle-aged and older adults and to compare the results of exercise with those obtained with hypnotic medications and 2) to discuss potential mechanisms by which exercise could promote sleep in insomniac patients. We identified studies from 1983 thro...

RESULTS Our pre-intervention audit showed a hypnotic use of 48%. This decreased to 26% for the first month following the educational intervention. Usage increased gradually in proportion to time from intervention. However, over the 4-month post-intervention period hypnotic use remained significantly lower than preintervention throughout the time period studied. CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS As the stud...

OBJECTIVE Previous studies found an association between hypnotic use and mortality risk. The prospective outcome data and the many baseline risk factors included in the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) provide an opportunity to better understand the reasons for this association. SETTING The WHI is a long-term national health study that focused on strategies for preventing disease in postmenopa...

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...

Hypnotic susceptibility is a major factor influencing the study of neural correlates hypnosis using EEG. In this context, while its effects on response to hypnotic suggestions are undisputed, less attention has been paid “neutral hypnosis” (i.e., condition in absence suggestions). Furthermore, although an influence opened and closed eye onto hypnotizability reported, systematic investigation st...

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-...