Neurophysiol. 2001 Jul;86(1):402-11.
Cortical representation of the sensory dimension of pain.
Hofbauer RK, Rainville P, Duncan GH, Bushnell MC.
Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec H3G 1Y6, Canada.
Abstract
It is well accepted that pain is a multidimensional experience, but little is known of how the brain represents these dimensions. We used positron emission tomography [...]
Pain. 1999 Aug;82(2):159-71.
Dissociation of sensory and affective dimensions of pain using hypnotic modulation.
Rainville P, Carrier B, Hofbauer RK, Bushnell MC, Duncan GH.
Département de Psychologie, Université de Montréal, Québec, Canada.
Abstract
Understanding the complex nature of pain perception requires the ability to separately analyze its psychological dimensions and their interaction, and relate them to specific variables and [...]
The youtube video below is of Dr. John Butler, a leading UK Hypno-anesthetist as he undergoes a hernia repair surgery using self hypnosis as the only form of anesthesia in November 2004 at the Chelsfield park hospital, Kent, UK. The surgeon is Tom Hennigan
Please be advised this video is graphic and does depict actual surgery [...]
Treatment of chronic tension-type headache with hypnotherapy
A single-blind time controlled study. Headache 1991;31(10):686-9
We investigated the effectiveness of a special hypnotherapy technique in the treatment of chronic tension-type headache. A waitinglist control group was used to control for the changes in headache activity due to the passage of time. The results showed significant reductions in the [...]
Monitoring real-time brain scan (fMRI) feedback of their own brains, volunteers were able to control their own pain levels, after three 13 minute sessions.
This biofeedback technique may replicate self-hypnosis. The area that they monitored of their brains was the rostral anterior cingulate cortex, which is known to modulate both the intensity and emotional impact of [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]