The effectiveness of hypnosis for pain relief: A systematic review and meta-analysis of 85 controlled experimental trials

T Thompson, DB Terhune, C Oram… - Neuroscience & …, 2019 - Elsevier
The current meta-analysis aimed to quantify the effectiveness of hypnosis for reducing pain
and identify factors that influence efficacy. Six major databases were systematically …

Hypnosis in psychotherapy, psychosomatics and medicine. A brief overview

B Peter - Frontiers in Psychology, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Aspects of hypnosis and its application in psychotherapy, psychosomatics and medicine are
examined and contextualized in the 250-year history of hypnosis. Imagination as an …

Stanford Hypnosis Integrated with Functional Connectivity-targeted Transcranial Stimulation (SHIFT): a preregistered randomized controlled trial

A Faerman, JH Bishop, KH Stimpson, A Phillips… - Nature Mental …, 2024 - nature.com
Hypnotizability, one's ability to experience cognitive, emotional, behavioral and physical
changes in response to suggestions in the context of hypnosis, is a stable neurobehavioral …

Brain functional correlates of resting hypnosis and hypnotizability: A review

V De Pascalis - Brain Sciences, 2024 - mdpi.com
This comprehensive review delves into the cognitive neuroscience of hypnosis and
variations in hypnotizability by examining research employing functional magnetic …

[HTML][HTML] Alteration of hypnotic experience following transcranial electrical stimulation of the left prefrontal cortex

RL Perri, G Di Filippo - International journal of clinical and health …, 2023 - Elsevier
Background Recent studies of neurostimulation reported alteration of hypnotizability and
hypnotic phenomena after inhibition of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC), but the …

Delusions and theories of belief

MH Connors, PW Halligan - Consciousness and Cognition, 2020 - Elsevier
Cognitive neuropsychiatry is a branch of cognitive psychology that seeks to explain
neuropsychiatric symptoms in terms of disruptions or damage to normal cognitive processes …

A critical review of standardized measures of hypnotic suggestibility

DJ Acunzo, DB Terhune - International Journal of Clinical and …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
The most well-established finding gleaned from decades of experimental hypnosis research
is that individuals display marked variability in responsiveness to hypnotic suggestions …

Failure of hypothesis evaluation as a factor in delusional belief

M Coltheart, M Davies - Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction In accounts of the two-factor theory of delusional belief, the second factor in this
theory has been referred to only in the most general terms, as a failure in the processes of …

Boosting the hypnotic experience. Inhibition of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex alters hypnotizability and sense of agency. A randomized, double-blind and sham …

RL Perri, D Perrotta, F Rossani, RJ Pekala - Behavioural Brain Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Hypnotizability refers to the individual responsiveness to hypnosis, and literature shows that
the greater the hypnotizability, the more effective the hypnotic suggestions. So far, few …

Wired to doubt: why people fear vaccines and climate change and mistrust science

GP Dobson - Frontiers in Medicine, 2022 - frontiersin.org
We all want to be right in our thinking. Vaccine hesitancy and global warming denial share
much in common:(1) both are threats to personal, community and global health,(2) action is …