Hypnosis and Neuroscience
A Cross Talk Between Clinical and Cognitive Research
Amir Raz, PhD;
Theodore Shapiro, MD
Arch Gen Psychiatry. 2002;59:85-90.
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 hypnosis as a manipulation, neuroimaging
techniques offer new opportunities to use hypnosis and posthypnotic suggestion
as probes into brain mechanisms and, reciprocally, provide a means of studying
hypnosis itself. We outline how the hypnotic state can serve as a way to tap
neurocognitive questions and how cognitive assays can in turn shed new light
on the neural bases of hypnosis. This cross talk should enhance research and
clinical applications.
From the Sackler Institute for Developmental Psychobiology, Department
of Psychiatry, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY.
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