Irritable bowel syndrome: a little understood organic bowel disease?
Prof Nicholas J Talley MD a Corresponding AuthorEmail Address, Prof Robin Spiller MD b
Irritable bowel syndrome affects 10% of adults with an unexplained female predominance. Although only a few people see their family doctor, the disease causes reduced quality of life and represents a multi-billion pound health-care [...]
Scientists are confirming hypnosis makes people literally see what they believe by affecting the way their brains function. Volunteers who had their brains scanned while under hypnosis showed they were not merely doing what they were told. The scans revealed that when they were asked to see non-existent colors, they really saw them.
In the tests [...]
Christina Lossi, a psychologist at the University of Wales, Swansea UK, conducted a study of 80 cancer patients aged 6 to 16.
Those under hypnosis experienced far less pain during treatments than control children, who simply talked to the researchers normally.
Source: Gosline, A. (2004). New Scientist, September 10th 2004.
Keywords: Controlled Experiments, Uses of Hypnosis, Evidence, Hypnosis [...]
A study titled Physiological effects of emotion: assessment via hypnosis was published in the The Lancet, Volume 340 on 11 July 1992 of 18 adults with IBS found that hypnosis “strikingly” reduced colonic motility, thus decreasing diarrhea and cramping.
Assessment of the physiological effects of physical and emotional stress has been hampered by a lack of [...]
John Gruzelier, a psychologist at Imperial College in London, used functional brain imaging (fMRI), and found that hypnosis affects an area in the brain that controls higher level executive functions. Gruzelier, presented his study at the British Association for the Advancement of Science Festival in Exeter, UK.
Gruzelier said:
This explains why, under hypnosis, people can do [...]
BBC News Online, on June 29, 2004, reported a study by a team from Soroka University, Israel that included 185 women. The study was presented to the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology conference in Berlin.
Dr Eliahu Levitas, who led the research studying if hypnosis could make the embryo transfer stage of IVF more [...]
An article published in the New Scientist on March, 30 2001 by Emma Young points out the benefits of hypnotherapy and relaxation training when utilized by patients with Hodgkin’s disease or non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma undergoing chemotherapy. These patients lived longer.
Leslie Walker of Hull University studied 63 patients with newly diagnosed cancers, all of whom were receiving [...]
The article “Hypnosis helps healing: Surgical wounds mend faster” posted in the Harvard Gazette discusses a report published in 1999 by Dr. Ginandes and Daniel Rosenthal (professor of radiology at the Harvard Medical School) on their study of the use of hypnosis and the speeding up the healing of broken bones.
The study (i.e controlled experiment) [...]
Source: The John Hopkins News-Letter “Hypnosis practices gain credibility” – By Sarah Williams – 3/31/06
In this article, Ms. Williams discusses how hypnosis has gained credence as a medical tool amongst physicians, she further states that studies show how hypnosis causes distinct mental states that can be used to ease pain, she then discusses a recent [...]