Repeated trials with cold-pressor pain were used to (a) determine whether the modest relation between hypnotic susceptibility and response to acupuncture analgesia obtained in previous experiments is enhanced over a series of treatments; (b) compare acupuncture and hypnotic analgesias; and (c) assess whether acupuncture analgesia increases with repeated treatments. Twenty high and 20 low hypnot...

IN THIS study, the principle of using a physiological fluid load to produce a disturbance in the sleep of normal subjects has been utilized both for the evaluation of the non-barbiturate hypnotic, ethchlorvynol ('Arvynol': Pfizer) and to compare its hypnotic effect with glutethimide ('Doriden': Ciba). The technique, which is based on the work of Isaacs (1957 a,b.) and Condouris, Costa and Bonny...

In this paper some models are applied to analyze insomnia data. Insomnia is a sleep disorder in which the patient does not get enough or satisfactory sleep and investigating the use of hypnotic drug for its cure is so important. For studying the effect of drugs on insomnia, it is useful to observe the response of interest (cured or not cured) for each subject repeatedly at several times. So, a ...

Background and aims: The aim of the study was to evaluate the effect of melatonin administration on sleep and behavioral disorders in the elderly and the facilitation of the discontinuation of regular hypnotic drugs. Methods: This was a prospective, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, crossover trial in a community-living population. Participants were 22 older adults (7 men, 15 women ...

PURPOSE To determine the proportion of patients receiving hypnotics upon admission to a palliative care unit, the frequency and intensity of withdrawal symptoms after rapid hypnotic discontinuation, and the effect of discontinuation on insomnia and cognitive failure. PATIENTS AND METHODS 120 consecutive admitted patients. Rapid hypnotic discontinuation (1-4 days) was attempted. Insomnia (visu...

Hypnotic responding might be due to attenuated frontal lobe functioning after the hypnotic induction. Little is known about whether personality traits linked with frontal functioning are associated with responsiveness to hypnotic suggestions. We assessed whether hypnotic suggestibility is related to the traits of self-control and impulsivity in 154 participants who completed the Brief Self-Cont...

IN THIS study, the principle of using a physiological fluid load to produce a disturbance in the sleep of normal subjects has been utilized both for the evaluation of the non-barbiturate hypnotic, ethchlorvynol ('Arvynol': Pfizer) and to compare its hypnotic effect with glutethimide ('Doriden': Ciba). The technique, which is based on the work of Isaacs (1957 a,b.) and Condouris, Costa and Bonny...

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...

The mediator role of response expectancies and the moderator role of hypnotic suggestibility were evaluated in the analogue treatment of pain. Approximately 1,000 participants were assessed for hypnotic suggestibility. Later, as part of a seemingly unrelated experiment, 188 of these individuals were randomly assigned to distraction, cognitive-behavioral package, hypnotic cognitive-behavioral pa...

We examined whether participants instructed to reenter a hypnotic state as part of the post-hypnotic suggestion (PHS) show less decay in responding over an 8-week period than participants who do not receive such instructions. We also attempted to replicate Trussell, Kurtz, and Strube's (1996) finding on impact of difficulty level of suggestion on response curve. Fifty-nine highly susceptible pa...