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...

Kirsch, Mazzoni, and Montgomery’s (in press) article musters an ardent defense of the hypothesis that hypnotic inductions produce relatively small increases in suggestibility, and that subjective changes and hypnotic phenomena can be produced by imaginative suggestions alone, without the induction of hypnosis. As the authors point out, this argument is consistent with studies conducted in a var...

Altered state theories of hypnosis posit that a qualitatively distinct state of mental processing, which emerges in those with high hypnotic susceptibility following a hypnotic induction, enables the generation of anomalous experiences in response to specific hypnotic suggestions. If so then such a state should be observable as a discrete pattern of changes to functional connectivity (shared in...

INTRODUCTION Dispositional mindfulness can be described as the mental ability to pay attention to the present moment, non-judgmentally. There is evidence of inverse relation between dispositional mindfulness and insomnia and substance use, but as of yet, no studies evaluating the specific association between dispositional mindfulness and the components of hypnotic use disorder. OBJECTIVE To e...

This experimental study examined 2 questions: (a) Does the Harvard Group Scale of Hypnotic Susceptibility, Form A (HGSHS:A) tap the "classic suggestion effect" and (b) does the wording of postexperimental questions bias subjective reports of hypnotic subjects? Results indicated that a significant minority of individuals who "passed" test suggestions by objective behavioral criteria reported per...

ASSESSMENT OF HYPNOTIZABILITY ....................................................... 386 Alternatives ........................................................................................ 386 The Classic Suggestion Izffect .................................................................. 387 Hypnotic Susceptibility vs Hypnotic Depth ................................................... 388 C...

Devices that monitor the depth of hypnosis based on the electroencephalogram (EEG) have long been commercialized, and clinicians use these to titrate the dosage of hypnotic agents. However, these have not yet been accepted as standard monitoring devices for anesthesiology. The primary reason is that the use of these monitoring devices does not completely prevent awareness during surgery, and th...

OBJECTIVE To examine the prescription rates in cancer patients of three common psychotropic drugs: anxiolytic/ hypnotic, antidepressant and antipsychotic. MATERIALS AND METHODS In this retrospective cohort study, data were extracted from the pharmacy database of University Malaya Medical Center (UMMC) responsible for dispensing records of patients stored in the pharmacy's Medication Managemen...

This study examined the role of hypnotic responsiveness in the practice of a dhami-jhankri, a traditional Nepali healer. The hypnotic capacity of 248 male patients was measured in an allopathic (Western) clinic, an Ayurvedic (ancient Hindu healing art) clinic, and a dhami-jhankri's practice. Hypnotizability was assessed using the Hypnotic Induction Profile (HIP). The Induction scores of the HIP...