Neuroscience
Today’s New York Times reports that hypnosis may, in fact, change perception in the brain. Sandra Blakeslee reports on a study which supports this. Dr. Amir Raz demonstrated that the Stroop effect was “obliterated” in the “highly hypnotizable people” he studied.
Read the popular version in the Times article; read the full study in the July 12 issue of the The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences:
Hypnotic suggestion reduces conflict in the human brain.” by Amir Raz, Jin Fan, and Michael I. Posner PNAS 2005 102: 9978-9983. (note: this article is free!)
Finally, did you know that in the 19th century, “physicians in India successfully used hypnosis as anesthesia, even for limb amputations.” Yow!
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Neuroscience
This Is Your Brain Under Hypnosis
Today’s New York Times reports that hypnosis may, in fact, change perception in the brain. Sandra Blakeslee reports on a study which supports this. Dr. Amir Raz demonstrated that the Stroop effect was “obliterated” in the “highly hypnotizable people” he studied.
Read the popular version in the Times article; read the full study in the July 12 issue of the The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences:
Hypnotic suggestion reduces conflict in the human brain.” by Amir Raz, Jin Fan, and Michael I. Posner PNAS 2005 102: 9978-9983. (note: this article is free!)
Finally, did you know that in the 19th century, “physicians in India successfully used hypnosis as anesthesia, even for limb amputations.” Yow!
- Neuroscience Gets Serious About Hypnosis
Hypnosis is synonymous with stage entertainment where the performer puts volunteers from the audience into a trance and commands them to do embarrassing things. This makes it sound like a joke, but in fact hypnosis is a real phenomenon and it is proving...
- Hypnosis And Consciousness
Next in a continuing series on hypnosis: Functional neuroanatomy of the hypnotic state In Press, Corrected Proof, Journal of Physiology (Paris). Marie-Elisabeth Faymonville, Mélanie Boly and Steven Laureys What is hypnosis and how to induce it There...
- Hypnosis And Genetics
"No, no, no, don't try any of that cow hypnosis on me, all right? It's not gonna work!" --Train Conductor SOUTH PARK (Season 1) First up on the hypnosis hit parade is the article by Raz et al. (in press). The last author, Mike Posner, is a prominent...
- I Suggest... Neuroimaging Studies Of Hypnosis
Now back to our irregularly scheduled neuroscience programming! There's a series of in press articles about hypnosis in the Journal of Physiology (Paris). I'll take a look and report back. Functional neuroanatomy of the hypnotic state In...
- The Values Of Distractions
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