Opioid therapy is the cornerstone of treatment for acute procedural and postoperative pain
and is regularly prescribed for severe and debilitating chronic pain conditions. Although …

Although attention is a central theme in psychological science, hypnosis researchers rarely
incorporate attentional findings into their work. As with other biological systems, attention …

Hypnosis can profoundly alter sensory awareness and cognitive processing. While the
cognitive and behavioral phenomena associated with hypnosis have long been thought to …

This is the first MRI study to report differences in brain structure size between low and highly
hypnotizable, healthy, right-handed young adults. Participants were stringently screened for …

Despite its long use in clinical settings, the checkered reputation of hypnosis has dimmed its
promise as a research instrument. Whereas cognitive neuroscience has scantily fostered …

What do we in truth understand by the word dissociation? Is it a psychological event with
underlying physiology, or just a metaphor? Frankel (1994a) Dissociation theories of …

In the aftermath of the human genome project, genotyping is fast becoming an affordable
and technologically viable complement to phenotyping. Whereas attempts to characterize …

For more than 200 years, the phenomena of hypnosis have intrigued the scientific
community and the general public. During hypnosis, many people appear to lose control …

The present chapter examines research assessing the neurophysiology of hypnosis to help
understand how and when hypnotic clinical (eg, pain control, imagery …

8.1. Introduction and historical In the 1930s and 1940s most of experimental foundations
psychology enthusiastically embraced Fisherian statistics, sampling theory and large group …