In the present work sedative and hypnotic effects of aqueous extract of Aloe vera in rats have been investigated. In order to evaluate the overall hypnotic effects of the Aloe vera extract, open field and loss of righting reflex tests were primarily used. The sedative and hypnotic effects of the extract were then confirmed by detection of remarkable raise in the total sleeping time through anal...

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...

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...

Clinicians and researchers typically report that children are more hypnotizable than adults. An estimated 60–90% of children are highly hypnotizable, compared with just 10–15% of adults (Gardner & Olness, 1981). Even if we take these estimates with a grain of salt, putative explanations for this phenomenon must consider developmental factors including the role of behavior, imagination, dependen...

An attempt is made, using hypnosis to modify the perception of the passage of clock time, to alter the amount of effective time available to subjects for free-recall learning. If effective time is manipulated successfully by the instructions designed to produce time distortion, subjects receiving hypnotic time distortion instructions designed to stretch 3 minutes into 10 should perform as well ...

The mechanisms underpinning the apparently remarkable levels of cognitive and behavioural control following hypnosis hypnotic suggestion are poorly understood. Numerous independent studies have reported that Stroop interference can be reduced a post-hypnotic asks participants to perceive words as if made up characters from foreign language. This effect indicates frontal executive functions more...

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-...