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Hypnosis and Neuroscience:  A Cross Talk Between Clinical and Cognitive Research

Amir Raz, PhD; Theodore Shapiro, MD
Arch Gen Psychiatry. 2002;59(1):85-90. doi:10.1001/archpsyc.59.1.85.
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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.

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